CVE-2023-48161

2023-11-2200:00:00

ubuntu.com

buffer overflow

giflib 5.2.1

local attacker

sensitive information

CVSS3

7.1

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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

Bugs

<https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/167/>

Notes

Author	Note
	Priority reason: Is only a crash in a CLI tool
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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchgiflib< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchgiflib< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchgiflib< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchgiflib< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchgiflib< anyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	giflib	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	giflib	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	giflib	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	24.04	noarch	giflib	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	giflib	< any	UNKNOWN