Out-of-Bounds Affecting giflib package, versions [,5.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.97% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GIFLIB-2381063
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Apr 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade giflib to version 5.1.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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