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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1817-1 libgd2 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

11 Jun 2019

Affected Packages:

libgd2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 929821.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-11038.

More information:

An unitialized read was discovered in the XBM support of libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation. The unitialized read might lead to information disclosure.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0-5+deb8u13.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 packages.

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