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openSUSE Leap 15.6 giflib Moderate Memory Corruption CVE-2026-23868

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Calendar Grey April 15, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Update for giflib addresses CVE-2026-23868, a moderate security flaw in openSUSE affecting memory integrity.
An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

Description

This update for giflib fixes the following issue:

* CVE-2026-23868: double-free result of a shallow copy can lead to memory

corruption (bsc#1259502).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate memory corruption OpenSUSE giflib cve-2026-23868

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2026-1338=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2026-1338=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* giflib-progs-debuginfo-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* libgif7-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* giflib-debugsource-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* libgif7-debuginfo-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* giflib-progs-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* giflib-devel-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* libgif7-32bit-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* libgif7-32bit-debuginfo-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* giflib-devel-32bit-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libgif7-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* giflib-debugsource-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* libgif7-debuginfo-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

* giflib-devel-5.2.2-150000.4.19.1

References

* bsc#1259502

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23868.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259502

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:1338-1
Release Date: 2026-04-15T07:34:01Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate memory corruption OpenSUSE giflib cve-2026-23868

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