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CVE-2015-8875

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the (1) pixops_composite_nearest, (2) pixops_composite_color_nearest, and (3) pixops_process functions in pixops/pixops.c in gdk-pixbuf before 2.33.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• GNOME Gdk-Pixbuf: through 2.33

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3589
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/12/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/16/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/17/7
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3085-1
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=dbfe8f70471864818bf458a39c8a99640895bd22
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3589
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/12/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/16/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/17/7
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3085-1
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=dbfe8f70471864818bf458a39c8a99640895bd22

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