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CVE-2015-7802

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
• Optipng Project Optipng: 0.7.5

References

• http://optipng.sourceforge.net/history.txt
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1
• https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/53/
• http://optipng.sourceforge.net/history.txt
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1
• https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/53/

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