Ubuntu: USN-5554-1 (CVE-2021-46829): GDK-PixBuf vulnerability
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
07/24/2022
08/29/2022
08/09/2022
03/22/2023
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)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libgdk-pixbuf2-0-0
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