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Debian 9: DLA-2937-1 Critical: gif2apng Buffer Overflow Exploits

debian lts
Calendar Grey March 7, 2022
Dist Debian Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4456-1 announces urgent gif2apng patches aimed at mitigating various memory corruption vulnerabilities.
Three issues have been discovered in gif2apng: tool for converting animated GIF images to APNG format

Summary

CVE-2021-45909:

heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the DecodeLZW function.
It allows an attacker to write a large amount of arbitrary data outside the
boundaries of a buffer.

CVE-2021-45910:

heap-based buffer overflow within the main function. It allows an attacker
to write data outside of the allocated buffer.

CVE-2021-45911:

heap based buffer overflow in processing of delays in the main function.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version
1.9+srconly-2+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gif2apng packages.

For the detailed security status of gif2apng please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/gif2apng

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


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Package: gif2apng
Version: 1.9+srconly-2+deb9u2
CVE ID: CVE-2021-45909 CVE-2021-45910 CVE-2021-45911

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