CVE-2021-44648

Publication date 12 January 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gdk-pixbuf	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.42.8+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.4
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
gdk-pixbuf	Upstream: 8ad828c

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5607-1
GDK-PixBuf vulnerability
13 September 2022