vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2021-46829: Moderate: gdk-pixbuf2 security update (ALSA-2023-2216)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 24, 2022
Added
May 15, 2023
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

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.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2alma-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-develalma-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-modules
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