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Medium ALAS2023-2025-1220 3 CVEs

Moderate: giflib security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Oct 14, 2025 · Updated Oct 14, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-31344: NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/07/3 NOTE: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/176/ CVE-2024-45993: Giflib Project v5.2.2 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow via gif2rgb. 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 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-debuginfo 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-debugsource 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-devel 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-utils 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 giflib-utils-debuginfo 0:5.2.1-9.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-48161.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-45993.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-31344.html