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Low ALAS2-2025-2987 1 CVE

Low: giflib security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 26, 2025 · Updated Sep 4, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-48161: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in GifLib Project GifLib v.5.2.1 allows a local attacker to obtain sensitive information via the DumpSCreen2RGB function in gif2rgb.c

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 giflib 0:4.1.6-9.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 giflib-debuginfo 0:4.1.6-9.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 giflib-devel 0:4.1.6-9.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 giflib-utils 0:4.1.6-9.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-48161.html