CVE-2021-20240

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-20240
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-28 11:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:29:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in gdk-pixbuf in versions before 2.42.0. An integer wraparound leading to an out of bounds write can occur when a crafted GIF image is loaded. An attacker may cause applications to crash or could potentially execute code on the victim system. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-191

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Gnome Gdk-pixbuf All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: mingw-gdk-pixbuf-2.42.2-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: gdk-pixbuf2-2.42.2-2.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: mingw-gdk-pixbuf-2.42.2-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
1926787 – (CVE-2021-20240) CVE-2021-20240 gdk-pixbuf: integer wraparound in the GIF loader of gdk-pixbuf via crafted input leads to segmentation fault MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: gdk-pixbuf2-2.42.2-2.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: mingw-gdk-pixbuf-2.42.2-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: mingw-gdk-pixbuf-2.42.2-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180557 Debian Security Update for gdk-pixbuf (CVE-2021-20240)
  • 281529 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2021-755ba8968a)
  • 281530 Fedora Security Update for mingw (FEDORA-2021-c918632e13)
  • 296053 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 35.94.4 Missing (CPUJUL2021)
  • 500200 Alpine Linux Security Update for gdk-pixbuf
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