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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: USN-854-2 Important Libgd2 Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2009
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Libgd2 is subject to several security flaws that can lead to denial of service and possible code execution across different, supported versions of Ubuntu.
Tomas Hoger discovered that the GD library did not properly handle the number of colors in certain malformed GD images

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security advisory denial of service critical issue code execution ubuntu libgd2 issue install package update

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