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Medium 5.1Published Mar 10, 2026
CVE-2026-23868Giflib contains a double-free vulnerability that is the result of a shallow copy in GifMakeSavedImage and incorrect error handling.
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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.
- CVSS
- 5.1 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-415, CWE-825
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Jul 15, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
giflib_project giflib giflib_project:giflib | from 5.0.0 through 6.1.1 | NVD |
References
- https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/f5b7267aed3665ef025c13823e454170d031c106/tree/gifalloc.c?diff=5146815377b7395944cb683a08c43eee3f631eb7patch
- https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2026-23868third-party-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16008
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16009
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16030
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16174
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19154
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19367
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19724
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19725
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25096
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8858
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8859
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8861
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8883
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8884
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8885
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8886
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8887
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9290
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9291
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9292
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9294
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:9295
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23868
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