Vulnerability CVE-2015-7505
Published: 2020-02-18

Description:
Stack-based buffer overflow in the gif_next_LZW function in libnsgif.c in Libnsgif 0.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted LZW stream in a GIF file.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
libnsgif stack overflow and out-of-bounds read
Hans Jerry Illik...
17.12.2015

Type:

CWE-787

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Netsurf-browser -> Libnsgif 

 References:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/70
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/537128/100/0/threaded
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