Fedora alert FEDORA-2026-6ea5f04bb9 (giflib)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 42 Update: giflib-5.2.2-9.fc42
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Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:48:40 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2026-6ea5f04bb9
2026-04-06 00:48:30.895452+00:00
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Name        : giflib
Product     : Fedora 42
Version     : 5.2.2
Release     : 9.fc42
URL         : http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/
Summary     : A library and utilities for processing GIFs
Description :
giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images.

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Update Information:

Fix CVE-2026-23868.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Mar 21 2026 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com> - 5.2.2-9
- Backport patch for CVE-2026-23868
* Wed Jul 23 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 5.2.2-8
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jul 16 2025 Sandro Mani <manisandro@gmail.com> - 5.2.2-7
- Increase minimum cmake version to 3.5
- Use GnuInstallDirs
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #2446289 - CVE-2026-23868 giflib: Giflib: Double-free vulnerability leading to memory
corruption [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2446289
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