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Fedora 42 giflib Important Memory Corruption Issue Fix 2026-6ea5f04bb9

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Calendar Grey April 6, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fix for CVE-2026-23868 addresses memory corruption in Fedora giflib 5.2.2. Important update recommended for users.
Fix CVE-2026-23868.

Summary

giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2026-23868.

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security advisory fedora memory corruption important giflib cve-2026-23868

Change Log

* Sat Mar 21 2026 Sandro Mani - 5.2.2-9 - Backport patch for CVE-2026-23868 * Wed Jul 23 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 5.2.2-8 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jul 16 2025 Sandro Mani - 5.2.2-7 - Increase minimum cmake version to 3.5 - Use GnuInstallDirs

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2446289 - CVE-2026-23868 giflib: Giflib: Double-free vulnerability leading to memory corruption [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2446289

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-6ea5f04bb9' 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

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Name: giflib
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 5.2.2
Release: 9.fc42
URL: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
Summary: A library and utilities for processing GIFs

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security advisory fedora memory corruption important giflib cve-2026-23868

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