RHSA-2026:75680 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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.

Description

GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD creates PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, XPM, BMP images, among other formats.

Security Fix(es):

• libgd: buffer overflow when processing specially crafted GIF file (CVE-2026-9672)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2533111 - CVE-2026-9672 libgd: buffer overflow when processing specially crafted GIF file

CVEs

• CVE-2026-9672

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important