CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-20240

8.8 HIGH Published 2021-05-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2021-05-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
8.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-191

Description

A 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.

Affected configurations

• gnome gdk-pixbuf (< 2.39.2) • fedoraproject fedora 33 • fedoraproject fedora 34

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) weakness

References