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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2024-45993 json

Giflib Project v5.2.2 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow via gif2rgb.

published 2024-09-30 2 y ago modified 2026-07-30 3 mo ago also EUVD-2024-41672 , JLSEC-2026-820

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Giflib Project v5.2.2 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow via gif2rgb.

Patch / fix

  • julia Giflib_jll 6.1.3+0
  • giflib Debian 14 6.1.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-45993

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-45993 updated cvss 6.6

giflib: heap buffer overflow via gif2rgb

  • Red Hat build of OpenJDK 1.8 java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 java-11-openjdk-portable java-11-openjdk-portable Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17 java-17-openjdk-portable java-17-openjdk-portable Red Hat build of OpenJDK 21 java-21-openjdk-portable-rhel7 java-21-openjdk-portable-rhel7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 giflib, giflib-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 giflib, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk-src, +80 more
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 giflib, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk-src, +77 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 giflib, java-21-openjdk
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Giflib_jll
>=5.2.2+0, <6.1.3+0
6.1.3+0

Affected products

  • giflib_project giflib

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.