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CVE-2021-40633 (GCVE-0-2021-40633)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-14 10:22 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:44
VLAI
Summary
A memory leak (out-of-memory) in gif2rgb in util/gif2rgb.c in giflib 5.1.4 allows remote attackers trigger an out of memory exception or denial of service via a gif format file.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/157/ x_refsource_MISC
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