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Gentoo: GLSA 200511-03 Normal: giflib DoS and Code Execution

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2005
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Gentoo GLSA 202301-02 covers various vulnerabilities in libpng, which could result in DoS or arbitrary code execution. Users are recommended to upgrade.
giflib may dereference NULL or write out of bounds when processing malformed images, potentially resulting in Denial of Service or arbitrary code execution

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200511-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: giflib: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: November 04, 2005 Bugs: #109997 ID: 200511-03

Synopsis ======= giflib may dereference NULL or write out of bounds when processing malformed images, potentially resulting in Denial of Service or arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= giflib is a library for reading and writing GIF images.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/giflib < 4.1.4 >= 4.1.4
========== Chris Evans and Daniel Eisenbud independently discovered two out-of-bounds memory write operations and a NULL pointer dereference in ...

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