vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4803-1 (CVE-2017-1000421): Gifsicle vulnerabilities

Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Jan 2, 2018

Added

Mar 22, 2023

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Gifsicle gifview 1.89 and older is vulnerable to a use-after-free in the read_gif function resulting potential code execution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-gifsicle

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