Bug 2533186

Summary: CVE-2026-9672 gedit: buffer overflow when processing specially crafted GIF file [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: geditAssignee: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: mclasen, rstrode, yselkowi
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2026-09-14 16:45:25 UTC 
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

A flaw was found in libgd. Processing a specially crafted GIF file allows a remote attacker to trigger a buffer overflow, resulting in an application crash and a denial of service. Arbitrary code execution is possible in theory, but considered highly unlikely because standard image decompression and pixel manipulation generally destroy the exploit payload.
Comment 1 Yaakov Selkowitz 2026-10-18 21:00:49 UTC 
gedit's (and other GNOME programs) libgd is a completely different and unrelated codebase that has nothing to do with this.