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openSUSE Leap 15.2: SU-2021:0865-1 Critical: giflib Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security patch has been released for giflib in openSUSE addressing vulnerabilities related to heap overflow and memory leak issues.
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Description

The following patch fixes

- a heap overflow in giffix

- a memory leak in libgif6

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch 2016-76=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

giflib-debugsource-5.0.5-2.3.1

giflib-devel-5.0.5-2.3.1

giflib-progs-5.0.5-2.3.1

giflib-progs-debuginfo-5.0.5-2.3.1

libgif6-5.0.5-2.3.1

libgif6-debuginfo-5.0.5-2.3.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64):

giflib-devel-32bit-5.0.5-2.3.1

libgif6-32bit-5.0.5-2.3.1

libgif6-debuginfo-32bit-5.0.5-2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7555.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949160

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960319

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0207-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1

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