ubuntu-cve-2023-43907
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2023-10-01 01:15
Modified
2025-10-24 05:02
Summary
Details

OptiPNG v0.7.7 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the 'buffer' variable at gifread.c.

Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "optipng",
            "binary_version": "0.7.6-1ubuntu0.16.04.1"
          }
        ],
        "priority_reason": "Denial of service only in command-line tool"
      },
      "package": {
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        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/optipng@0.7.6-1ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
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            }
          ],
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        }
      ],
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        "0.7.6-1",
        "0.7.6-1ubuntu0.16.04.1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
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          }
        ],
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      },
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      },
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            }
          ],
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        "0.7.6-1ubuntu1",
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    },
    {
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          {
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          }
        ],
        "priority_reason": "Denial of service only in command-line tool"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:20.04:LTS",
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      },
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      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
            "binary_name": "optipng",
            "binary_version": "0.7.7-2build1"
          }
        ],
        "priority_reason": "Denial of service only in command-line tool"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "optipng",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/optipng@0.7.7-2build1?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
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            {
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            }
          ],
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        }
      ],
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        "0.7.7-2",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "OptiPNG v0.7.7 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the \u0027buffer\u0027 variable at gifread.c.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43907",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T05:02:17Z",
  "published": "2023-10-01T01:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-43907"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/Frank-Z7/z-vulnerabilitys/blob/main/optipng-global-buffer-overflow1/optipng-global-buffer-overflow1.md"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://optipng.sourceforge.net/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://sourceforge.net/projects/optipng/files/OptiPNG/optipng-0.7.7/optipng-0.7.7.tar.gz/download?use_mirror=udomain\u0026download="
    },
    {
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      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43907"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-43907"
  ]
}



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