CVE-2023-44821

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-10-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-401

Description

Gifsicle through 1.94, if deployed in a way that allows untrusted input to affect Gif_Realloc calls, might allow a denial of service (memory consumption). NOTE: this has been disputed by multiple parties because the Gifsicle code is not commonly used for unattended operation in which new input arrives for a long-running process, does not ship with functionality to link it into another application as a library, and does not have realistic use cases in which an adversary controls the entire command line.

Affected products

Lcdf Gifsicle: through 1.94

References

https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/issues/195
https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/issues/65
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3I6Z7VAHUYX3Q4DULJ76NFD2CIFZJYH5/
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https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/issues/195
https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/issues/65
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3I6Z7VAHUYX3Q4DULJ76NFD2CIFZJYH5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3WLTXJS6AIKPGVOAJ7EYC4HL3NEG6CGF/
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