CVE-2022-28506 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2022-28506?

CVE-2022-28506 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 25 Apr 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-28506?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Giflib Project Giflib.

How do I fix CVE-2022-28506?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2022-28506 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28506 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2022-28506, AZL-10305, AZL-34727, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28506, ECHO-b0d6-3526-4173, GHSA-x77v-4m7v-7fgv and 5 more.