High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in giflib through 5.1.4. DumpScreen2RGB in gif2rgb.c has a heap-based buffer over-read.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-23922
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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