What is CVE-2015-7802?

CVE-2015-7802 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Optipng Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-04-20.

How severe is CVE-2015-7802?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Optipng Project

CVE-2015-7802

gifread.c in gif2png, as used in OptiPNG before 0.7.6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) via a crafted GIF file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.016 (72.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Optipng_project Optipng — versions 0.7.5
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-7802?: CVE-2015-7802 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Optipng Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-04-20.
How severe is CVE-2015-7802?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.