CVE-2015-7555: fedoraproject fedora

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-7555 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 1.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 13-04-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix.c in giffix in giflib 5.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) via crafted image and logical screen width fields in a GIF file.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.