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Mageia Linux Local Check: mgasa-2016-0020
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
8 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Mageia Linux Local Security Checks mgasa-2016-0020
Insight
Insight
Advisory text to describe the update. Wrap lines at ~75 chars. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in giffix utility of giflib when processing records of the type 'IMAGE_DESC_RECORD_TYPE' due to the allocated size of 'LineBuffer' equaling the value of the logical screen width, 'GifFileIn->SWidth', while subsequently having 'GifFileIn->Image.Width' bytes of data written to it (CVE-2015-7555).
Solution
Solution
Update the affected packages to the latest available version.