vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2020-29385)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 26, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A security issue was found in gdk-pixbuf2 2.40.0 up to 2.42.0. A malformed GIF image could lead to an endless loop in the write_indexes function in gdk-pixbuf/lzw.c, taking full CPU resources and leading to a denial of service.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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