gnome gdk-pixbuf CVE-2021-20240 in GNOME and Fedora Project Products
Published on May 28, 2021

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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.

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Weakness Type

What is an Integer underflow Vulnerability?

The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result. This can happen in signed and unsigned cases.

CVE-2021-20240 has been classified to as an Integer underflow vulnerability or weakness.


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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.79%
Percentile
73.72%

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