ubuntu-cve-2022-28506
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2022-04-25 13:15
Modified
2026-04-22 07:41
Summary
Details

There is a heap-buffer-overflow in GIFLIB 5.2.1 function DumpScreen2RGB() in gif2rgb.c:298:45.

Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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  "aliases": [],
  "details": "There is a heap-buffer-overflow in GIFLIB 5.2.1 function DumpScreen2RGB() in gif2rgb.c:298:45.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28506",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:41:34Z",
  "published": "2022-04-25T13:15:00Z",
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