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

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1220 advisory.

    Buffer Overflow vulnerability in GifLib Project GifLib v.5.2.1 allows a local attacker to obtain sensitive     information via the DumpSCreen2RGB function in gif2rgb.c (CVE-2023-48161)

    Giflib Project v5.2.2 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow via gif2rgb. (CVE-2024-45993)

    NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/07/3NOTE:
    https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/176/ (CVE-2025-31344)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Giflib Project v5.2.2 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow via gif2rgb. (CVE-2024-45993)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-075 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in giflib through 5.1.4. DumpScreen2RGB in gif2rgb.c has a heap-based buffer over-     read. (CVE-2020-23922)

    There is a heap-buffer-overflow in GIFLIB 5.2.1 function DumpScreen2RGB() in gif2rgb.c:298:45.
    (CVE-2022-28506)

    Buffer Overflow vulnerability in GifLib Project GifLib v.5.2.1 allows a local attacker to obtain sensitive     information via the DumpSCreen2RGB function in gif2rgb.c (CVE-2023-48161)

    Giflib Project v5.2.2 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow via gif2rgb. (CVE-2024-45993)

    NOTE: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/07/3NOTE:
    https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/176/ (CVE-2025-31344)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
270536	Amazon Linux 2023 : giflib, giflib-devel, giflib-utils (ALAS2023-2025-1220)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
250914	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-45993	Nessus	Misc.	medium
173083	Amazon Linux 2023 : giflib, giflib-devel, giflib-utils (ALAS2023-2023-075)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high

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