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Bug 918539 (CVE-2023-48161)

Summary: media-libs/giflib: buffer overflow
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Christopher Fore <csfore>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: codec
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: A3 [upstream]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

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 Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 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/