Advisories » MGASA-2021-0449

Updated libgd packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 Sep 2021
Modification date: 29 Sep 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-40812

Description

The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:

The GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 has an out-of-bounds
read because of the lack of certain gdGetBuf and gdPutBuf return value
checks (CVE-2021-40812).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29486
• https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/FCVD7RYV2TSOLINPDAIY7P7Q4OSCOREN/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-40812

SRPMS

8/core

• libgd-2.3.1-1.3.mga8