debian · CVE-2017-16938

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:58:57 GMT

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CVE-2017-16938 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (optipng), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack or other unspecified impact with a maliciously crafted GIF format file, related to an uncontrolled loop in the LZWReadByte function of the gifread.c file.

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