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Vulnerability · Published Jan 12, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-44648

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the gdk-pixbuf2 package (AlmaLinux). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.0% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.0%top 19.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:9gdk-pixbuf22.42.6-3.el9ALSA-2023:2216
AlmaLinux:9gdk-pixbuf2-devel2.42.6-3.el9ALSA-2023:2216
AlmaLinux:9gdk-pixbuf2-modules2.42.6-3.el9ALSA-2023:2216
Alpine:v3.20gdk-pixbuf2.42.8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44648
Alpine:v3.21gdk-pixbuf2.42.8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44648
Alpine:v3.22gdk-pixbuf2.42.8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44648
Alpine:v3.23gdk-pixbuf2.42.8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44648
Alpine:v3.24gdk-pixbuf2.42.8-r0ALPINE-CVE-2021-44648
Debian:12gdk-pixbuf2.42.9+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-44648
Debian:13gdk-pixbuf2.42.9+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-44648
Debian:14gdk-pixbuf2.42.9+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-44648
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSgdk-pixbuf2.42.8+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1USN-5607-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSgdk-pixbuf2.42.8+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1UBUNTU-CVE-2021-44648

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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References