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Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-39742: Medium priority package update for giflib

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Aug 25, 2023

Added

Feb 17, 2025

Modified

Jul 9, 2025

Description

giflib v5.2.1 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component getarg.c.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-giflibamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-giflib-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-giflib-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-giflib-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-giflib-utilsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-giflib-utils-debuginfo

References

CVE-2023-39742
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-39742
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-386.html
CWE-120

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