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Mageia 8 MGASA-2021-0433 Critical: LibGD Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia has issued a security patch for libgd packages addressing denial of service vulnerabilities associated with specially designed TGA files.
read_header_tga in gd_tga.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted TGA file

Summary

read_header_tga in gd_tga.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted TGA file. (CVE-2021-38115)
gdImageGd2Ptr in gd_gd2.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 has a double free. (CVE-2021-40145)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29448

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5068-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38115

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40145

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/libgd-2.3.1-1.1.mga8

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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0433.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-38115, CVE-2021-40145

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