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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-48161: Out-of-bounds Write

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-48161: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/22/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-giflib

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