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Rocky Linux giflib Important DoS Buffer Overflow Vuln RLSA-2026-33503

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Calendar Grey July 1, 2026
Scroller Rockylinux
Critical security update for giflib on Rocky Linux to mitigate denial of service risks via buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
Important: giflib security update

Summary

An update is available for giflib. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list


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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow important giflib rockylinux

RPMs

giflib-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

giflib-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.i686.rpm

giflib-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.src.rpm

giflib-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

giflib-debuginfo-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

giflib-debuginfo-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.i686.rpm

giflib-debuginfo-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

giflib-debugsource-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

giflib-debugsource-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.i686.rpm

giflib-debugsource-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

giflib-devel-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm

giflib-devel-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.i686.rpm

giflib-devel-0:5.1.4-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

References

No references

CVES

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-26740

Severity
important
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Critical

Name: RLSA-2026:33503
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 8

Fixes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448747


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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow important giflib rockylinux

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