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Published: 26/01/2024 Updated: 02/02/2024

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 0

In GNOME GdkPixbuf (aka gdk-pixbuf) up to and including 2.42.10, the ANI (Windows animated cursor) decoder encounters heap memory corruption (in ani_load_chunk in io-ani.c) when parsing chunks in a crafted .ani file. A crafted file could allow an malicious user to overwrite heap metadata, leading to a denial of service or code execution attack. This occurs in gdk_pixbuf_set_option() in gdk-pixbuf.c.

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DescriptionA flaw was found in GNOME's GdkPixbuf library, a library used to load image data in various formats used by GDK for handling graphical assets This issue occurs when loading a crafted ANI (animated cursor file) file, which may lead to a heap based out-of-bounds write, causing memory corruption When a successful attack is in place ...

CWE-787 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/issues/202 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-48622

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