CVE-2022-28506

Publication date 25 April 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

There is a heap-buffer-overflow in GIFLIB 5.2.1 function DumpScreen2RGB() in gif2rgb.c:298:45.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
giflib 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Fixed 5.2.1-2.5ubuntu0.1
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was deferred [2024-02-02]
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was deferred [2024-02-02]
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 5.1.9-2ubuntu0.1
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 5.1.9-1ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 5.1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 5.1.4-0.3~16.04.1+esm1

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Notes

mdeslaur

invalid read of size 1, denial of service only

Patch details

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Package Patch details
giflib

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N