PT-2017-16990 · Gnome+2 · Gdk-Pixbuf+2

Ariel Zelivansky · Published 2017-03-09 · Updated 2020-08-04 · CVE-2017-6311

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gdk-pixbuf (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash. This is achieved via vectors related to printing an error message.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2055

CVE-2017-6311

MGASA-2018-0016

USN-3418-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ubuntu

Gdk-Pixbuf

References · 33

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778204 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/21/4 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2870 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6311 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0016.html · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2017-2055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-6311 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3418-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6311 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6311 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0016 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-08 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2862 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6311 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SJF5ARFOX4BFUK6YCBKGAKBQYECO3AI2 · Vendor Advisory