CVE-2021-44648: Out-of-bounds Write

January 12, 2022 (updated November 7, 2023)

GNOME gdk-pixbuf 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 12

References

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/issues/136
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44648
sahildhar.github.io/blogpost/GdkPixbuf-Heap-Buffer-Overflow-in-lzw_decoder_new/

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