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CVE-2021-46829

Published: 24 July 2022

GNOME GdkPixbuf (aka GDK-PixBuf) before 2.42.8 allows a heap-based buffer overflow when compositing or clearing frames in GIF files, as demonstrated by io-gif-animation.c composite_frame. This overflow is controllable and could be abused for code execution, especially on 32-bit systems.

Notes

AuthorNote
alexmurray
as per advisory, affects versions <= 2.42.6

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
gdk-pixbuf
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal
Released (2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3)
jammy Not vulnerable
(2.42.8+dfsg-1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(2.42.8+dfsg-1)
trusty Not vulnerable
(code not present)
upstream Not vulnerable
(2.42.8+dfsg-1)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
Patches:
upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/merge_requests/121/diffs
upstream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/commit/6976bdc8ee9dd2c2954f91066f7b0f643769a379

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H