Heap-based buffer overflow in Opensuse - CVE-2015-7552

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Heap-based buffer overflow in Opensuse - CVE-2015-7552

Published: April 18, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40344
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7552
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in Heap-based buffer overflow in the gdk_pixbuf_flip function in gdk-pixbuf-scale.c in gdk-pixbuf 2.30.x. A remote attacker can use a crafted BMP file. to trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Opensuse
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
pango (Red Hat package)
gtk2 (Red Hat package)
gdk-pixbuf2 (Red Hat package)
glib-networking (Red Hat package)
glib2 (Red Hat package)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions
json-glib (Red Hat package)
harfbuzz (Red Hat package)
cairo (Red Hat package)
pyatspi (Red Hat package)
at-spi2-core (Red Hat package)
at-spi2-atk (Red Hat package)
atk (Red Hat package)
gtk3 (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2015-7552

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

pango (Red Hat package) - update to 1.40.4-1.el7
gtk2 (Red Hat package) - update to 2.24.31-1.el7
gdk-pixbuf2 (Red Hat package) - update to 2.36.5-1.el7
glib-networking (Red Hat package) - update to 2.50.0-1.el7
glib2 (Red Hat package) - update to 2.50.3-3.el7
json-glib (Red Hat package) - update to 1.2.6-1.el7
harfbuzz (Red Hat package) - update to 1.3.2-1.el7
cairo (Red Hat package) - update to 1.14.8-2.el7
pyatspi (Red Hat package) - update to 2.20.3-1.el7
at-spi2-core (Red Hat package) - update to 2.22.0-1.el7
at-spi2-atk (Red Hat package) - update to 2.22.0-2.el7
atk (Red Hat package) - update to 2.22.0-3.el7
gtk3 (Red Hat package) - update to 3.22.10-4.el7

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