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Fedora 44 giflib High-Priority Denial of Service Buffer Overflow Fix
fedora
May 30, 2026
Apply proposed fix for CVE-2026-26740.
Summary
giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images.
Update Information:
Apply proposed fix for CVE-2026-26740.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Tue May 12 2026 Sandro Mani
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2448830 - CVE-2026-26740 giflib: giflib: Denial of Service via buffer overflow in EGifGCBToExtension [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448830
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-0be1222520' 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 44
Version: 6.1.3
Release: 2.fc44
Summary: A library and utilities for processing GIFs
Topics Covered
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