RHSA-2026:9294 — Security Advisory

An update for giflib is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images.

Security Fix(es):

• giflib: Giflib: Double-free vulnerability leading to memory corruption (CVE-2026-23868)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.