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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2937-1 gif2apng -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

07 Mar 2022

Affected Packages:

gif2apng

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-45909, CVE-2021-45910, CVE-2021-45911.

More information:

Three issues have been discovered in gif2apng: tool for converting animated GIF images to APNG format.

• CVE-2021-45909

  heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the DecodeLZW function. It allows an attacker to write a large amount of arbitrary data outside the boundaries of a buffer.

• CVE-2021-45910:

  heap-based buffer overflow within the main function. It allows an attacker to write data outside of the allocated buffer.

• CVE-2021-45911:

  heap based buffer overflow in processing of delays in the main function.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.9+srconly-2+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gif2apng packages.

For the detailed security status of gif2apng please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/gif2apng

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