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ZGV Image Viewer Animated GIF Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote memory corruption vulnerability affects the animated GIF functionality of zgv. It should be noted that although it is likely that xzgv is also vulnerable to this issue, this has not been confirmed. The underlying issue causing this vulnerability is unknown, although it is likely due to a failure of the application to handle malformed image files.

The full impact of this issue is currently unknown, however this issue can be leveraged to cause the affected application to crash. It is possible, however unconfirmed, that this issue may be leveraged to execute arbitrary code.







 

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