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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3587-1 libgd2 -- security update

Date Reported:

27 May 2016

Affected Packages:

libgd2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 824627.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-7456, CVE-2015-8874, CVE-2015-8877.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an application using the libgd2 library.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-5+deb8u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.1-1 or earlier.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 packages.