CVE-2015-7555

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 22
giflib: through 5.1.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174876.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135034/giflib-5.1.1-Heap-Overflow.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/83
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023474
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537171/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81697
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035331
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174876.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135034/giflib-5.1.1-Heap-Overflow.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/83
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023474

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