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Bug 785664 (CVE-2020-23922, CVE-2022-28506, CVE-2023-39742)

Summary: media-libs/giflib: multiple vulnerabilities
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Sam James <sam>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: IN_PROGRESS ---    
Severity: minor CC: allenwebb, codec
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/159/
Whiteboard: B3 [upstream]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-04-25 17:24:42 UTC
Description:
"An issue was discovered in giflib through 5.1.4. DumpScreen2RGB in gif2rgb.c has a heap-based buffer over-read."

Bug: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/151/
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Comment 6 NATTkA bot gentoo-dev 2021-07-29 18:11:24 UTC
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Comment 7 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-04-26 00:08:20 UTC
CVE-2022-28506:

There is a heap-buffer-overflow in GIFLIB 5.2.1 function DumpScreen2RGB() in gif2rgb.c:298:45.
Comment 8 Allen Webb 2023-10-10 14:41:59 UTC
CVE-2023-39742
"""
giflib v5.2.1 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component getarg.c.
"""
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-39742