Giflib Project 5.2.2 gif2rgb heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Giflib Project 5.2.2. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function gif2rgb. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-45993. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Giflib Project 5.2.2. This issue affects the function gif2rgb. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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

The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-45993 since 09/11/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/17/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 270536 (Amazon Linux 2023 : giflib, giflib-devel, giflib-utils (ALAS2023-2025-1220)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (270536). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

VulDB Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Temp Score: 5.5
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CNA Base Score: 6.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 270536
Nessus Name: Amazon Linux 2023 : giflib, giflib-devel, giflib-utils (ALAS2023-2025-1220)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

09/11/2024 🔍
09/30/2024 +19 days 🔍
09/30/2024 +0 days 🔍
10/17/2025 +382 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-45993 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-45993
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-278885

Entryinfo

Created: 09/30/2024 19:48
Updated: 10/17/2025 18:42
Changes: 09/30/2024 19:48 (52), 10/01/2024 15:13 (11), 10/05/2024 02:25 (2), 10/17/2025 18:42 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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