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Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-7996): graphicsmagick vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 18, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the WPG format reader in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 and earlier allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a colormap with a large number of entries.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-graphicsmagick
Title
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