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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-23922

An issue was discovered in giflib through 5.1.4. DumpScreen2RGB in gif2rgb.c has a heap-based buffer over-read.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-23922

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Apr 2021, 18:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in giflib through 5.1.4. DumpScreen2RGB in gif2rgb.c has a heap-based buffer over-read.

osv:CVE-2020-23922
Complete source record
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      "references": [
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