CVE-2025-31344

Publication date 14 April 2025

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in openEuler giflib on Linux. This vulnerability is associated with program files gif2rgb.C. This issue affects giflib: through 5.2.2.

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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	25.10 questing	Needs evaluation
	25.04 plucky	Needs evaluation
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation

Notes

mdeslaur

see info here https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/26277 This triggers a read of size 1 in the gif2rgb command-line tool

Patch details

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

Package	Patch details
giflib	Other: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/giflib/blob/master/giflib-5.2.2-cve-2025-31344.patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.3 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H