CVE-2021-44648: GNOME gdk-pixbuf 2.42.6 is vulnerable to a heap-buffer overflow vulnerability when decoding the lzw compressed stream of image data in GIF files with lzw…

PriorityP346high8.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.89%

77.0th percentile

GNOME gdk-pixbuf 2.42.6 is vulnerable to a heap-buffer overflow vulnerability when decoding the lzw compressed stream of image data in GIF files with lzw minimum code size equals to 12.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	gdk-pixbuf	< gdk-pixbuf 2.42.9+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	gdk-pixbuf 2.42.9+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
fedoraproject	fedora	—	—
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	>= 0 < 2.42.2+dfsg-1+deb11u1	2.42.2+dfsg-1+deb11u1
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	>= 0 < 2.42.9+dfsg-1	2.42.9+dfsg-1
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	>= 0 < 2.42.9+dfsg-1	2.42.9+dfsg-1
gnome	gdk-pixbuf	>= 0 < 2.42.9+dfsg-1	2.42.9+dfsg-1
gnome	gdkpixbuf	—	—

CVSS provenance

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

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv8.8HIGH

vendor_debian8.8HIGH

vendor_redhat8.8HIGH

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