CVE-2021-46829
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.41%Published: 7/24/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-46829
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/gdk-pixbuffrom 0, < 2.42.2+dfsg-1+deb11u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |