Out-of-bounds Write Affecting gdk-pixbuf package, versions <2.42.2+dfsg-1+deb11u1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.85% (82nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GDKPIXBUF-2338604
- published 13 Jan 2022
- disclosed 12 Jan 2022
Introduced: 12 Jan 2022
CVE-2021-44648 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
gdk-pixbuf
to version 2.42.2+dfsg-1+deb11u1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gdk-pixbuf
package and not the gdk-pixbuf
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-44648
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/issues/136
- https://sahildhar.github.io/blogpost/GdkPixbuf-Heap-Buffer-Overflow-in-lzw_decoder_new/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JEVTOGIJITK2N5AOOLKKMDIICZDQE6CH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PEKBMOO52RXONWKB6ZKKHTVPLF6WC3KF/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5228
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JEVTOGIJITK2N5AOOLKKMDIICZDQE6CH/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PEKBMOO52RXONWKB6ZKKHTVPLF6WC3KF/