CVE-2026-23868

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Published 2026-05-19 · Modified 2026-04-20

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CVSS v3

5.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.1

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

51%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Affected	—
sid	Fixed	`6.1.3-1`
forky	Affected	—
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
giflib_project	giflib	`{"startIncluding":"5.0.0","endIncluding":"6.1.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-415

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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