CVE-2023-39742

Publication date 25 August 2023

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

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

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Is only a crash in a CLI tool

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
giflib	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2024-02-02]
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 5.1.9-1ubuntu0.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 5.1.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 5.1.4-0.3~16.04.1+esm1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Notes

mdeslaur

one of the commits listes below likely fixes this issue.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
giflib	Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/368f28c0034ecfb6dd4b3412af4cc589a56e0611/ Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/fd0f408bd6dbc6ca33f0593d17164f9cb113a8ce/ Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/ccbc956432650734c91acb3fc88837f7b81267ff/

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6824-1
GIFLIB vulnerabilities
10 June 2024