CVE-2023-48161

medium

Published 2024-10-16 · Modified 2024-10-16

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.2.2-1`
sid	Fixed	`5.2.2-1`
forky	Fixed	`5.2.2-1`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.432.b06-2.el9.aarch64.rpm`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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