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Ubuntu: USN-4107-1 (CVE-2016-3977): GIFLIB vulnerabilities

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Apr 21, 2016

Added

Aug 21, 2019

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-giflib-toolsubuntu-upgrade-libgif7

References

CVE-2016-3977
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-3977
CWE-119
EUVD-EUVD-2016-4986
NVD-CVE-2016-3977
UBUNTU-USN-4107-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-4986

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