Vulnerability CVE-2021-20240
Published: 2021-05-28

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.

Type:

CWE-787

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
8.3/10
8.5/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Complete
Affected software
Gnome -> Gdk-pixbuf 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1926787
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5H3GNVWMZTYZR3JBYCK57PF7PFMQBNP/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EANWYODLOJDFLMBH6WEKJJMQ5PKLEWML/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BGZVCTH5O7WBJLYXZ2UOKLYNIFPVR55D/
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