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Tk GIF Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA26942
Release Date: 2007-09-27
Last Update: 2007-10-19
Popularity: 9,267 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Tcl/Tk 8.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Tk, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

1) A vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "ReadImage()" function in generic/tkImgGIF.c. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via interlaced GIF files containing multiple smaller frames following the first frame.

2) A vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "FileReadGIF()" function in generic/tkImgGIF.c. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via specially crafted GIF files.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 8.4.16.

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