Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package optipng  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-OPTIPNG-5927503
  • published4 Oct 2023
  • disclosed1 Oct 2023

Introduced: 1 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-43907  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (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 optipng package and not the optipng package as distributed by Ubuntu.

OptiPNG v0.7.7 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow via the 'buffer' variable at gifread.c.