Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for gif2png. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for gif2png
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42339
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RELEASE DATE:
2010-11-23
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DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for gif2png. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise
a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing
overly long command line arguments. This can be exploited to e.g.
cause a stack-based buffer overflow by passing specially crafted
filenames to the application.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update gif2png").
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Debian bug by Patroklos Argyroudis.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2010-0358:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/051229.html
Debian Bug #550978:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550978
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