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Mageia 8 MGASA-2022-0275 Moderate: Mingw-Giflib Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 5, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia has released an update for mingw-giflib addressing a critical heap-buffer overflow vulnerability disclosed on August 5, 2022.
It was discovered that giflib 5.2.1 (including mingw-giflib which has giflib 5.2.1 bundled) contained a heap-buffer-overflow in function DumpScreen2RGB() (CVE-2022-28506)

Summary

It was discovered that giflib 5.2.1 (including mingw-giflib which has giflib 5.2.1 bundled) contained a heap-buffer-overflow in function DumpScreen2RGB() (CVE-2022-28506).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30671

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/B4CJSHXBD2RS5OJNWSHQZVMTQCCTIPYS/

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28506

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update heap overflow mageia mingw-giflib

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/mingw-giflib-5.2.1-2.1.mga8

- 8/core/giflib-5.2.1-5.1.mga8

Publication date: 05 Aug 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0275.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-28506

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update heap overflow mageia mingw-giflib

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