CVE-2021-44648

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    CVE-2021-44648

    Published: 12 Jan 2022Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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://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/, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5228, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/issues/136, https://sahildhar.github.io/blogpost/GdkPixbuf-Heap-Buffer-Overflow-in-lzw_decoder_new/

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 3afa395cd47fdde70216a8a8e4d71ac753e26ade
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.42.6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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