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Mageia: 2020-0098 Moderate: libgd NULL Pointer Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey February 24, 2020
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Mageia has responded to important libgd security weaknesses that may cause application failures. Investigate available patches and further information.
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: gdImageClone in gd.c in libgd 2.1.0-rc2 through 2.2.5 has a NULL pointer dereference allowing attackers to crash an application ...

Summary

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:
gdImageClone in gd.c in libgd 2.1.0-rc2 through 2.2.5 has a NULL pointer dereference allowing attackers to crash an application via a specific function call sequence. (CVE-2018-14553)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26220

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00014.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14553

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix NULL pointer application crash libgd Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/libgd-2.2.5-5.1.mga7

Publication date: 24 Feb 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0098.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-14553

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix NULL pointer application crash libgd Mageia

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