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Red Hat: RHSA-2020:4659-01 Update on Moderate GD Security Patch

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ubuntu releases a minor security patch for libjpeg in 20.04 LTS, tackling several vulnerabilities and enhancements.
An update for gd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD creates PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, XPM, BMP images, among other formats.
Security Fix(es):
* gd: Heap-based buffer overflow in gdImageColorMatch() in gd_color_match.c (CVE-2019-6977)
* gd: NULL pointer dereference in gdImageClone (CVE-2018-14553)
* gd: Double free in the gdImage*Ptr in gd_gif_out.c, gd_jpeg.c, and gd_wbmp.c (CVE-2019-6978)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat buffer overflow gd NULL pointer

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14553 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6977 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6978 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: gd-2.2.5-7.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: gd-2.2.5-7.el8.aarch64.rpm gd-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.aarch64.rpm gd-debugsource-2.2.5-7.el8.aarch64.rpm gd-devel-2.2.5-7.el8.aarch64.rpm gd-progs-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: gd-2.2.5-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm gd-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm gd-debugsource-2.2.5-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm gd-devel-2.2.5-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm gd-progs-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: gd-2.2.5-7.el8.s390x.rpm gd-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.s390x.rpm gd-debugsource-2.2.5-7.el8.s390x.rpm gd-devel-2.2.5-7.el8.s390x.rpm gd-progs-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gd-2.2.5-7.el8.i686.rpm gd-2.2.5-7.el8.x86_64.rpm gd-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.i686.rpm gd-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.x86_64.rpm gd-debugsource-2.2.5-7.el8.i686.rpm gd-debugsource-2.2.5-7.el8.x86_64.rpm gd-devel-2.2.5-7.el8.i686.rpm gd-devel-2.2.5-7.el8.x86_64.rpm gd-progs-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.i686.rpm gd-progs-debuginfo-2.2.5-7.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4659-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4659
Issue date: 2020-11-03

Topic

An update for gd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat buffer overflow gd NULL pointer

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1600727 - CVE-2018-14553 gd: NULL pointer dereference in gdImageClone

1671390 - CVE-2019-6978 gd: Double free in the gdImage*Ptr in gd_gif_out.c, gd_jpeg.c, and gd_wbmp.c

1672207 - CVE-2019-6977 gd: Heap-based buffer overflow in gdImageColorMatch() in gd_color_match.c

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