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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-29385: Infinite Loop

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-29385: Infinite Loop

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/26/2020
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

GNOME gdk-pixbuf (aka GdkPixbuf) before 2.42.2 allows a denial of service (infinite loop) in lzw.c in the function write_indexes. if c->self_code equals 10, self->code_table[10].extends will assign the value 11 to c. The next execution in the loop will assign self->code_table[11].extends to c, which will give the value of 10. This will make the loop run infinitely. This bug can, for example, be triggered by calling this function with a GIF image with LZW compression that is crafted in a special way.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf

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