Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-6314

Title: Gnome Gdk-Pixbuf Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-6314.

CWE Category CWE-835

Published Date Mar 10, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-6314: The make_available_at_least function in io-tiff.c in gdk-pixbuf allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a large TIFF file.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://mov.sx/2017/02/21/bug-hunting-gdk-pixbuf.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/21/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/26/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96779 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779020 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00025.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SJF5ARFOX4BFUK6YCBKGAKBQYECO3AI2/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VSAZ6UCKKXC5VOWXGWQHOX2ZBLLATIOT/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-08 http://mov.sx/2017/02/21/bug-hunting-gdk-pixbuf.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/21/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/26/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96779 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779020 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00025.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SJF5ARFOX4BFUK6YCBKGAKBQYECO3AI2/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VSAZ6UCKKXC5VOWXGWQHOX2ZBLLATIOT/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-08

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns