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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1196-1 optipng -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Nov 2017

Affected Packages:

optipng

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 878839.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-16938.

More information:

optipng, an advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer, has been found vulnerable to a buffer overflow which allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack or other unspecified impact with a maliciously crafted GIF format file, related to an uncontrolled loop in the LZWReadByte function of the gifread.c file.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.4-1+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your optipng packages.

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