UBUNTU-CVE-2021-46829

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-46829
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-46829.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-46829
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Published
2022-07-24T19:15:00Z
Modified
2025-07-18T16:47:06Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / gdk-pixbuf

Package

Name
gdk-pixbuf
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/gdk-pixbuf@2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3

Affected versions

2.*

2.40.0+dfsg-1build1
2.40.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1
2.40.0+dfsg-2
2.40.0+dfsg-3
2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1
2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.2

Ecosystem specific

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            "binary_name": "gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0",
            "binary_version": "2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0",
            "binary_version": "2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0-udeb",
            "binary_version": "2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin",
            "binary_version": "2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common",
            "binary_version": "2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libgdk-pixbuf2.0-doc",
            "binary_version": "2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}