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Gentoo: GLSA-200708-05 Advisory: Risk of GD Code Execution Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2007
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Numerous security flaws in GD permit unauthorized code execution, posing risks to Gentoo environments. Ensure you update to protect your system.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GD, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200708-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GD: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: August 09, 2007 Bugs: #179154 ID: 200708-05

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GD, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= GD is a graphic library for fast image creation.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/gd < 2.0.35 >= 2.0.35
========== Xavier Roche discovered an infinite loop in the gdPngReadData() function when processing a truncated PNG file (CVE-2007-2756). An integer overflow has been discovered in the gdImageCreateTrueColor() funct...

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