Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package giflib  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-GIFLIB-429789
  • published26 May 2018
  • disclosed26 May 2018

Introduced: 26 May 2018

CVE-2018-11489  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-129  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

The DGifDecompressLine function in dgif_lib.c in GIFLIB (possibly version 3.0.x), as later shipped in cgif.c in sam2p 0.49.4, has a heap-based buffer overflow because a certain CrntCode array index is not checked. This will lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.