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USN-3030-1/USN-3060-1 GD library vulnerability

USN-3030-1/USN-3060-1 GD library vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu, libgd

Versions Affected

Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Description

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory when using gdImageScaleTwoPass(). A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2013-7456)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain malformed XBM images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XBM image, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-5116)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory when using _gd2GetHeader(). A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5766)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain color indexes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-6128)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory when encoding a GIF image. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-6161)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain malformed TGA images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted TGA image, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-6132, CVE-2016-6214)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory when using gdImageScale(). A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6207)

Affected Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.74.0

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.74.0 or later versions

References

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Cloud Foundry Foundation Security Team, AUTHOR

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