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Red Hat: CVE-2021-46829: heap-based buffer overflow when compositing or clearing frames in GIF files (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-46829: heap-based buffer overflow when compositing or clearing frames in GIF files (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/24/2022
Created
05/15/2023
Added
05/15/2023
Modified
09/03/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2
  • redhat-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-devel-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-modules
  • redhat-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-modules-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-gdk-pixbuf2-tests-debuginfo

References

  • DSA-5228
  • CVE-2021-46829
  • RHSA-2023:2216

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