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CVE-2021-46829
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-07-24T19:15:10.097 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:15:37.840

Summary

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.

Affected products

gnome — gdk-pixbuf

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References

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