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CVE-2015-7555 json

Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix.c in giffix in giflib 5.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) via crafted…

published 10y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-7469

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix.c in giffix in giflib 5.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) via crafted image and logical screen width fields in a GIF file.

Patch / fix

  • giflib Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.1.2-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7555

  • giflib SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12 SP1 +5 more 5.0.5-7.1
  • giflib SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES for SAP 11 SP3, SLES 11 SP4 +6 more 4.1.6-13.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:0202-1SUSE-SU-2016:0192-1

  • giflib openSUSE Tumbleweed 5.1.4-1.12

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10016-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-7555 updated cvss 5.1

giflib: Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix utility

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 giflib Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 giflib, giflib-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 giflib, giflib-utils
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) Operational Tools phantomjs
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135034/giflib-5.1.1-Heap-Overflow.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/83 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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