VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2021-46829
CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.80%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-07-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: CWE-190
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Patch, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Patch, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Third Party Advisory