CVE-2021-44648

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/issues/136Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JEVTOGIJITK2N5AOOLKKMDIICZDQE6CH/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PEKBMOO52RXONWKB6ZKKHTVPLF6WC3KF/
https://sahildhar.github.io/blogpost/GdkPixbuf-Heap-Buffer-Overflow-in-lzw_decoder_new/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5228Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/issues/136Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JEVTOGIJITK2N5AOOLKKMDIICZDQE6CH/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PEKBMOO52RXONWKB6ZKKHTVPLF6WC3KF/
https://sahildhar.github.io/blogpost/GdkPixbuf-Heap-Buffer-Overflow-in-lzw_decoder_new/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5228Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jan 12, 2022
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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