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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-1b5f6f4eb2 Moderate: giflib Segfault Fix

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
In relation to CVE-2023-39742, this announcement outlines the update of the giflib package for Fedora 38 aimed at bolstering security measures.
Add patch for CVE-2023.39742.

Summary

giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images.

Update Information:

Add patch for CVE-2023.39742.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora segmentation fault giflib

Change Log

* Thu Sep 14 2023 Sandro Mani - 5.2.1-17 - Add patch for CVE-2023-39742 * Wed Jul 19 2023 Fedora Release Engineering - 5.2.1-16 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2238790 - CVE-2023-39742 giflib: segfault via getarg.c [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238790

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-1b5f6f4eb2' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: giflib
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 5.2.1
Release: 17.fc38
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
Summary: A library and utilities for processing GIFs

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora segmentation fault giflib

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