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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4384-1 libgd2 -- security update

Date Reported:

04 Feb 2019

Affected Packages:

libgd2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 920645, Bug 920728.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-6977, CVE-2019-6978.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered 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 malformed file is processed.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.4-2+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 packages.

For the detailed security status of libgd2 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/libgd2