CVE-2022-48622

Summary

CVE-2022-48622 is a vulnerability affecting the GNOME GdkPixbuf library, specifically versions up to 2.42.10. maliciously crafted .ani files can cause heap memory corruption during ANI (Windows animated cursor) decoding in the function ani_load_chunk within io-ani.c. Consequences of this vulnerability include denial of service and potential code execution attacks, which can occur in the gdk_pixbuf_set_option() function of gdk-pixbuf.c.

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