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Fedora 36: FEDORA-2022-964883b2a5 Critical: giflib Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Implement suggested updates to remediate buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the giflib library on Fedora 36 in order to tackle pressing security threats.
Apply proposed patch for CVE-2022-28506.

Summary

giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images.

Apply proposed patch for CVE-2022-28506.

* Thu Jul 21 2022 Sandro Mani - 5.2.1-14

- Backport fix for CVE-2022-28506

* Thu Jul 21 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 5.2.1-13

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild

* Fri Mar 25 2022 Sandro Mani - 5.2.1-12

- Rebuild with mingw-gcc-12

[ 1 ] Bug #2078747 - CVE-2022-28506 giflib: giflib:Buffer overflow in function DumpScreen2RGB() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2078747

[ 2 ] Bug #2078748 - CVE-2022-28506 mingw-giflib: giflib:Buffer overflow in function DumpScreen2RGB() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2078748

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-964883b2a5' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 5.2.1
Release: 14.fc36
Summary: A library and utilities for processing GIFs

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