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Calendar Grey October 28, 2016
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Essential SUSE patch addresses significant gd vulnerabilities that could lead to potential program failures and serious security breaches.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for gd fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2016-7568: A specially crafted image file could cause an application crash or potentially execute arbitrary code when the image is converted to webp (bsc#1001900) - CVE-2016-8670: Stack Buffer Overflow in GD dynamicGetbuf (bsc#1004924) - CVE-2016-6911: Check for out-of-bound read in dynamicGetbuf() (bsc#1005274) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP1-2016-1571=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-1571=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical application crash SUSE image processing gd library

References

#1001900 #1004924 #1005274

Cross- CVE-2016-6911 CVE-2016-7568 CVE-2016-8670

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6911.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7568.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8670.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001900

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1004924

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1005274

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:2668-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical application crash SUSE image processing gd library

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