RHSA-2023:2216 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: gdk-pixbuf2 security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · May 9, 2023

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for gdk-pixbuf2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The gdk-pixbuf2 packages provide an image loading library that can be extended by loadable modules for new image formats. It is used by toolkits such as GTK+ or clutter.

Security Fix(es):

  • gdk-pixbuf: heap-buffer overflow when decoding the lzw compressed stream of image data (CVE-2021-44648)

  • gdk-pixbuf: heap-based buffer overflow when compositing or clearing frames in GIF files (CVE-2021-46829)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2023:2216 — Red Hat Security Advisory: gdk-pixbuf2 security update | PulseLinux