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CVE-2016-3977

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in util/gif2rgb.c in gif2rgb in giflib 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the background color index in a GIF file.

Affected products

• giflib: through 5.1.2
• Opensuse: 13.2

References

• http://bugs.fi/fuzzing/index.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00079.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00084.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00019.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88103
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1325771
• https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/87/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/ea8dbc5786862a3e16a5acfa3d24e2c2f608cd88/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4107-1/
• http://bugs.fi/fuzzing/index.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00079.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00084.html

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