Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GDK-PixBuf vulnerabilities (USN-2767-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2767-1 advisory. Gustavo Grieco discovered that the GDK-PixBuf library did not properly handle scaling tga image files, leading to a heap overflow. If a user or automated...

Fedora 16 : gimp-2.6.11-21.fc16 (2011-10761)

This update adds checks to avoid heap corruption and buffer overflows when loading GIF image files CVE-2011-2896. Additionally, it fixes a bug which caused GIMP to print an unnecessary warning to the command line on startup. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding descripti...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0444

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0444. The giflib packages contain a shared library of functions for loading and saving GIF image files. This library is API and ABI compatible with libungif, the library that supported uncompressed GIF image files while the Unisys...

Microsoft MSN Messenger GIF processing buffer overflow

Overview MSN Messenger clients before version 7.0 will allow remote attackers to take control of a computer if malicious GIF files are processed. Description Microsoft MSN Messenger is an instant messaging application that allows users to collaborate with people using text messages, voice and vid...