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Low ALAS2-2025-2998 1 CVE

Low: giflib security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 8, 2025 · Updated Sep 16, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-40633: A memory leak (out-of-memory) in gif2rgb in util/gif2rgb.c in giflib 5.1.4 allows remote attackers trigger an out of memory exception or denial of service via a gif format file.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 giflib 0:4.1.6-9.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 giflib-debuginfo 0:4.1.6-9.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 giflib-devel 0:4.1.6-9.amzn2.0.4
Amazon Linux · 2 giflib-utils 0:4.1.6-9.amzn2.0.4

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-40633.html