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A giflib security update has been released for Fedora 35.



SECURITY: Fedora 35 Update: giflib-5.2.1-9.fc35


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-91f353b8be
2022-08-06 01:40:51.285057
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Name : giflib
Product : Fedora 35
Version : 5.2.1
Release : 9.fc35
URL :   http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
Summary : A library and utilities for processing GIFs
Description :
giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images.

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Update Information:

Apply proposed patch for CVE-2022-28506.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jul 21 2022 Sandro Mani - 5.2.1-9
- Backport fix for CVE-2022-28506
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2078747 - CVE-2022-28506 giflib: giflib:Buffer overflow in function DumpScreen2RGB() [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2078747
[ 2 ] Bug #2078748 - CVE-2022-28506 mingw-giflib: giflib:Buffer overflow in function DumpScreen2RGB() [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2078748
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-91f353b8be' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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