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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-16938: OptiPNG: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-16938: OptiPNG: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/08/2018
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack or other unspecified impact with a maliciously crafted GIF format file, related to an uncontrolled loop in the LZWReadByte function of the gifread.c file.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-gfx-optipng

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