Bug 1261836 (CVE-2015-7673) - CVE-2015-7673 gdk-pixbuf: Heap overflow and DoS vulnerability when scaling a TGA file
Summary: CVE-2015-7673 gdk-pixbuf: Heap overflow and DoS vulnerability when scaling a ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2015-7673
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1261849
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-10 09:44 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2023-05-13 00:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gdk-pixbuf 2.32.0
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Last Closed: 2015-10-23 12:57:30 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-09-10 09:44:29 UTC 
It was reported that heap overflow and DoS in gdk-pixbuf implementation occurs triggered by scaling TGA file. This library is used also by Firefox and Chromium, making them vulnerable.
Comment 10 Stefan Cornelius 2015-09-22 12:47:42 UTC 
Upstream patches:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=19f9685dbff7d1f929c61cf99188df917a18811d
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=edf6fb8d856574bc3bb3a703037f56533229267c
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=6ddca835100107e6b5841ce9d56074f6d98c387e
Comment 13 Adam Mariš 2015-10-02 08:12:12 UTC 
CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/1
Comment 14 Adam Mariš 2015-10-02 08:54:18 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Gustavo Grieco for reporting this issue.
Comment 15 Adam Mariš 2015-10-05 11:59:22 UTC 
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/18
Comment 16 Stefan Cornelius 2015-10-23 12:55:05 UTC 
The infinite loop in RHEL6 is annoying but shouldn't qualify as security issue.
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