CVE-2023-48161

Publication date 22 November 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in GifLib Project GifLib v.5.2.1 allows a local attacker to obtain sensitive information via the DumpSCreen2RGB function in gif2rgb.c

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Is only a crash in a CLI tool

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
giflib	24.10 oracular	Vulnerable
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2024-02-02]
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

gianz

as of today (2024-06-06) the issue has not been fixed. the provided PoC works also against the latest version from the repo.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.1 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H