Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-1000421

critical

CVE-2017-1000421

Gifsicle gifview 1.89 and older is vulnerable to a use-after-free in t ...

Published Modified CWE 416
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Gifsicle gifview 1.89 and older is vulnerable to a use-after-free in the read_gif function resulting potential code execution

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11gifsicle1.90-1
debian 12gifsicle1.90-1
debian 13gifsicle1.90-1
debian 14gifsicle1.90-1
debian 7gifsicle1.67-1.1~deb7u1
debian 8gifsicle1.86-1+deb8u1
debian 9gifsicle1.88-3+deb9u1
echogifsicle1.90-1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMgifsicle1.78-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMgifsicle1.88-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

References

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