CVE-2023-48161

Publication date 22 November 2023

Last updated 23 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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

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Why is this CVE low priority?

Is only a crash in a CLI tool

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
giflib	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was deferred [2024-02-02]
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

gianz

as of today (2024-06-06) the issue has not been fixed. the provided PoC works also against the latest version from the repo.

mdeslaur

see info here https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/26277

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
giflib	Upstream: https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/5b74cdd9c1285514eaa4675347ba3eea81d32c65/

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.1 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.1 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H