Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1106-1 libgd2 -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 22 Sep 2017
- Affected Packages:
- libgd2
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6362.
- More information:
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A double-free vulnerability was discovered in the gdImagePngPtr() function in libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation, which may result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted file is processed.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1+deb7u10.We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 packages.
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