Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-4491

Title: Gnome Gdk-Pixbuf RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-4491.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Aug 16, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-4491: Integer overflow in the make_filter_table function in pixops/pixops.c in gdk-pixbuf before 2.31.5, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Linux, Google Chrome on Linux, and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) via crafted bitmap dimensions that are mishandled during scaling.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165701.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165703.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165730.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165732.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00002.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1682.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1694.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3337 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-88.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2712-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2722-1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752297 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184009 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252290 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=ffec86ed5010c5a2be14f47b33bcf4ed3169a199 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-05 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165701.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165703.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165730.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165732.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00002.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1682.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1694.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3337 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-88.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2712-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2722-1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752297 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184009 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252290 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdk-pixbuf/commit/?id=ffec86ed5010c5a2be14f47b33bcf4ed3169a199 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-05 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-4491 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 16, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.