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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3630-1 libgd2 -- security update

Date Reported:

26 Jul 2016

Affected Packages:

libgd2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-6207.

More information:

Secunia Research at Flexera Software discovered an integer overflow vulnerability within the _gdContributionsAlloc() function in libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation. A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial-of-service against an application using the libgd2 library.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.0-5+deb8u6.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.2-43-g22cba39-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 packages.