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AIKIDO-2024-10530

gtk is vulnerable to Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components

Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Dec 11, 2024

60

Medium Risk

This Affects:

rustgtk
0.0.0 - *
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TL;DR

The gtk-rs GTK3 bindings are no longer maintained, as the maintainers have archived the repository and added a note to the crate descriptions and their README.md files indicating deprecation. Affected packages include gtk-sys, gtk3-macros, gdk-sys, gdkx11, gdkx11-sys, atk-sys, atk, gtk, gdk, gdkwayland-sys, gdkwayland, gtk-layer-shell-sys, and gtk-layer-shell. Users are advised to migrate to GTK4 bindings where possible.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using this package.

Background info

gtk is vulnerable to Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components in all versions.

How to fix this

Remove any GTK3 package from your application. Please take a look at gtk4-rs instead.