Description (CNA)
Giflib contains a double-free vulnerability that is the result of a shallow copy in GifMakeSavedImage and incorrect error handling. The conditions needed to trigger this vulnerability are difficult but may be possible.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| giflib / giflib | affected 5.0.0 through 6.1.1 |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2026-23868
- https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/f5b7267aed3665ef025c13823e454170d031c106/tree/gifalloc.c?diff=5146815377b7395944cb683a08c43eee3f631eb7
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
No references supplied.
A flaw was found in giflib. This double-free vulnerability, caused by a shallow copy in GifMakeSavedImage and incorrect error handling, may allow an attacker to corrupt memory. While difficult to trigger, successful exploitation could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution or a denial of service.
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23868
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2446207
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-23868.json
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8883
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9290
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8858
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19154
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8861
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8884
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8885
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8887
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8886
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9291
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9292
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9295
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9294
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8859
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19367
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25096
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19724
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19725
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16008
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16030
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16009
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16174