Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package giflib-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-GIFLIBDEVEL-2809366
  • published7 May 2022
  • disclosed6 May 2022

Introduced: 6 May 2022

CVE-2016-3977  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.4.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream giflib-devel package and not the giflib-devel package as distributed by SLES.

Heap-based buffer overflow in util/gif2rgb.c in gif2rgb in giflib 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via the background color index in a GIF file.