CVE-2021-44648

Publication date 12 January 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

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

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · 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

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