Advisories » MGASA-2016-0215

Updated libgd packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 02 Jun 2016
Modification date: 02 Jun 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2015-8877 , CVE-2016-5116

Description

Updated libgd packages fix security vulnerabilities:

The gdImageScaleTwoPass function in gd_interpolation.c in libgd before 2.2.0
uses inconsistent allocate and free approaches, which allows remote attackers
to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted call, as
demonstrated by a call to the PHP imagescale function (CVE-2015-8877).

While creating an XBM image (imagexbm) with an user supplied name, libgd before
2.2.0 did not check the vsnprintf return value, so an application might trust
this length and read more memory than it should, causing a read-out-of
boundaries, leaking stack memory (CVE-2016-5116).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18562
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3587
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/29/5
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8877
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5116

SRPMS

5/core

• libgd-2.2.1-1.2.mga5