CVE-2021-20240: A flaw was found in gdk-pixbuf in versions before 2.42.0. An integer wraparound leading to an out of bounds write can occur when a crafted GIF image is loaded…

PriorityP349high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.35%

81.5th percentile

A flaw was found in gdk-pixbuf in versions before 2.42.0. An integer wraparound leading to an out of bounds write can occur when a crafted GIF image is loaded. An attacker may cause applications to crash or could potentially execute code on the victim system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	gdk-pixbuf	< gdk-pixbuf 2.42.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	gdk-pixbuf 2.42.2+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	< 2.39.2	2.39.2
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	—	—
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	>= 0 < 2.42.2+dfsg-1	2.42.2+dfsg-1
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	>= 0 < 2.42.2+dfsg-1	2.42.2+dfsg-1
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	>= 0 < 2.42.2+dfsg-1	2.42.2+dfsg-1
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	>= 0 < 2.42.2+dfsg-1	2.42.2+dfsg-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.08.3HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

osv8.8HIGH

vendor_debian8.8HIGH

vendor_redhat8.8HIGH

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