Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2021-44648: Medium priority package update for gdk-pixbuf2
Description
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. A flaw was found in gdk-pixbuf. The vulnerability occurs due to the index overwriting in the lzw_decoder_new function, leading to a heap buffer overflow. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted GIF file, leading to a crash or code execution.
Solution(s)
- amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2
- amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-debuginfo
- amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-debugsource
- amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-devel
- amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-devel-debuginfo
- amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-modules
- amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-modules-debuginfo
- amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-tests
- amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-tests-debuginfo
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