CVE-2018-10677 — The DecodeGifImg function in ngiflib

The DecodeGifImg function in ngiflib.c in MiniUPnP ngiflib 0.4 lacks certain checks against width and height, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (WritePixels heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a

01What is this vulnerability?

The DecodeGifImg function in ngiflib.c in MiniUPnP ngiflib 0.4 lacks certain checks against width and height, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (WritePixels heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted GIF file.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-05-02T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T07:46:46.396Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/miniupnp/ngiflib/commit/b588a2249c7abbfc52173e32ee11d6facef82…
• github.com — https://github.com/miniupnp/ngiflib/issues/1