[USN-5969-1] gif2apng vulnerabilities

Paulo Flabiano Smorigo pfsmorigo at canonical.com
Thu Mar 23 23:07:18 UTC 2023


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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5969-1
March 23, 2023

gif2apng vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in gif2apng.

Software Description:
- gif2apng: tool for converting animated GIF images to APNG format

Details:

It was discovered that gif2apng contained multiple heap-base overflows. An
attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service (system
crash). (CVE-2021-45909, CVE-2021-45910, CVE-2021-45911)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  gif2apng                        1.9+srconly-3ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  gif2apng                        1.9+srconly-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
  gif2apng                        1.7-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5969-1
  CVE-2021-45909, CVE-2021-45910, CVE-2021-45911

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gif2apng/1.9+srconly-3ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gif2apng/1.9+srconly-2ubuntu0.1
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