MGASA-2019-0096

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    MGASA-2019-0096

    Published: 20 Feb 2019Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-11490

    Summary: Updated giflib packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: Null dereferences in main() of gifclrmp. Heap Buffer Overflow-2 in function DGifDecompressLine() in cgif.c. CVE-2018-11490) Segmentation fault in PrintCodeBlock. Segmentation fault of giftool reading a crafted file. Floating point exception in giftext utility. Heap buffer overflow in DumpScreen2RGB in gif2rgb.c:317. Ineffective bounds check in DGifSlurp. GIFLIB 5.1.4: DGifSlurp fails on empty comment.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0096.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24378, https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/master/tree/NEWS

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: giflib

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/giflib?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.1.6-1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High