CVE-2020-29385

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

GNOME gdk-pixbuf (aka GdkPixbuf) before 2.42.2 allows a denial of service (infinite loop) in lzw.c in the function write_indexes. if c->self_code equals 10, self->code_table[10].extends will assign the value 11 to c. The next execution in the loop will assign self->code_table[11].extends to c, which will give the value of 10. This will make the loop run infinitely. This bug can, for example, be triggered by calling this function with a GIF image with LZW compression that is crafted in a special way.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29385

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-29385.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202012-19

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202012-20

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.42.2-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.42.2+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.42.2+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.42.2+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2.42.2+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.42.2+dfsg-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.