diff --git a/giflib-5.2.1-cve-2026-23868.patch b/giflib-5.2.1-cve-2026-23868.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f27cf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/giflib-5.2.1-cve-2026-23868.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+--- a/gifalloc.c
++++ b/gifalloc.c
+@@ -349,6 +349,14 @@
+              * problems.
+              */
+ 
++            /* Null out aliased pointers before any allocations
++             * so that FreeLastSavedImage won't free CopyFrom's
++             * data if an allocation fails partway through. */
++            sp->ImageDesc.ColorMap = NULL;
++            sp->RasterBits = NULL;
++            sp->ExtensionBlocks = NULL;
++            sp->ExtensionBlockCount = 0;
++ 
+             /* first, the local color map */
+             if (CopyFrom->ImageDesc.ColorMap != NULL) {
+                 sp->ImageDesc.ColorMap = GifMakeMapObject(
+
diff --git a/giflib.spec b/giflib.spec
index 1aaf101..22dd705 100644
--- a/giflib.spec
+++ b/giflib.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Name:          giflib
 Summary:       A library and utilities for processing GIFs
 Version:       5.2.1
-Release:       9%{?dist}
+Release:       10%{?dist}
 
 License:       MIT
 URL:           http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/%{name}/
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Patch0:        giflib_quantize.patch
 Patch1:        giflib_coverity.patch
 # Generate HTML docs with consistent section IDs to avoid multilib difference
 Patch2:        giflib_html-docs-consistent-ids.patch
+# from upstream, for <= 6.1.1, RHEL-154864
+# https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/code/ci/f5b7267aed3665ef025c13823e454170d031c106/
+Patch3:        giflib-5.2.1-cve-2026-23868.patch
 
 BuildRequires: gcc
 BuildRequires: make
@@ -47,6 +50,9 @@ format image files.
 %build
 %make_build CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fPIC" LDFLAGS="%{__global_ldflags}"
 
+# remove extra index.html.in
+rm doc/index.html.in
+
 
 %install
 %make_install PREFIX="%{_prefix}" LIBDIR="%{_libdir}"
@@ -74,6 +80,9 @@ rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libgif.a
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 24 2026 Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@redhat.com> - 5.2.1-10
+- fix CVE-2026-23868: double free in GifMakeSavedImage (RHEL-154864)
+
 * Mon Aug 09 2021 Mohan Boddu <mboddu@redhat.com> - 5.2.1-9
 - Rebuilt for IMA sigs, glibc 2.34, aarch64 flags
   Related: rhbz#1991688