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.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/issues/136
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sahildhar.github.io/blogpost/GdkPixbuf-Heap-Buffer-Overflow-in-lzw_decoder_new/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PEKBMOO52RXONWKB6ZKKHTVPLF6WC3KF/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JEVTOGIJITK2N5AOOLKKMDIICZDQE6CH/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5228
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0018
EPSS Percentile
38.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux
11.0
fedoraproject/fedora
34
fedoraproject/fedora
35
gnome/gdkpixbuf
2.42.6
Published
Jan 12, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026