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CVE-2017-7940

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

The iw_read_gif_file function in imagew-gif.c in libimageworsener.a in ImageWorsener 1.3.0 allows remote attackers to consume an amount of available memory via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Entropymine Imageworsener: 1.3.0

References

• https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener/issues/18
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-06
• https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener/issues/18
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-06

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