Advisories » MGASA-2016-0399

Updated giflib packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 26 Nov 2016
Modification date: 26 Nov 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-3977

Description

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was found in giflib. A maliciously
crafted gif file could cause the gif2rgb tool to crash (CVE-2016-3977).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18233
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00079.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3977

SRPMS

5/core

• giflib-4.2.3-4.3.mga5