Bug 2533186 - CVE-2026-9672 gedit: buffer overflow when processing specially crafted GIF file [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-9672 gedit: buffer overflow when processing specially crafted GIF fi...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gedit
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
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Assignee: Yaakov Selkowitz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["1456ac85-a745-403c-b262-8...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-9672
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Reported: 2026-09-14 16:45 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2026-10-18 21:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-10-18 21:00:49 UTC
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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.


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