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Medium ALAS2023-2023-075 2 CVEs

Moderate: giflib security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 17, 2023 · Updated Sep 23, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-28506: There is a heap-buffer-overflow in GIFLIB 5.2.1 function DumpScreen2RGB() in gif2rgb.c:298:45. CVE-2020-23922: An issue was discovered in giflib through 5.1.4. DumpScreen2RGB in gif2rgb.c has a heap-based buffer over-read.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-debuginfo 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-debugsource 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-devel 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-utils 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-utils-debuginfo 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-23922.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-28506.html