- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3556-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso April 24, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : libgd2 CVE ID : CVE-2016-3074 Debian Bug : 822242 Hans Jerry Illikainen discovered that libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation, suffers of a signedness vulnerability which may result in a heap overflow when processing specially crafted compressed gd2 data. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause an application using the libgd2 library to crash, or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u2. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0-5+deb8u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1-4.1. We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 packages. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://www.debian.org/security/ Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Debian: DSA-3556-1: libgd2 security update
Hans Jerry Illikainen discovered that libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation, suffers of a signedness vulnerability which may result in a heap overflow when processing specially crafted compressed gd2 data. A remote attacker can take
