918539 – (CVE-2023-48161) media-libs/giflib: buffer overflow

Bug 918539 (CVE-2023-48161) - media-libs/giflib: buffer overflow

Summary: media-libs/giflib: buffer overflow

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	CVE-2023-48161

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Whiteboard:	A3 [upstream]
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Reported:	2023-11-25 17:40 UTC by Christopher Fore
Modified:	2023-11-25 22:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Christopher Fore 2023-11-25 17:40:53 UTC

CVE-2023-48161 (https://github.com/tacetool/TACE#cve-2023-48161):

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in GifLib Project GifLib v.5.2.1 allows a local attacker to obtain sensitive information via the DumpSCreen2RGB function in gif2rgb.c

Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester

2023-11-25 19:39:19 UTC

Is there an upstream report?

Comment 2 Christopher Fore 2023-11-25 19:41:42 UTC

Yes, sorry, I wasn't sure which to use since they were both linked in the CVE

https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/167/