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CVE-2015-4491

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the make_filter_table function in pixops/pixops.c in gdk-pixbuf before 2.31.5, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Linux, Google Chrome on Linux, and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via crafted bitmap dimensions that are mishandled during scaling.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22
• GNOME Gdk-Pixbuf: through 2.31.4
• Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 10, 11.3

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165701.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165703.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165730.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165732.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00002.html

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