Double Free Affecting libgd2 package, versions <2.2.4-2+deb9u2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.84% (82nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBGD2-383077
- published 7 Sep 2017
- disclosed 7 Sep 2017
Introduced: 7 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-6362 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
libgd2
to version 2.2.4-2+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgd2
package and not the libgd2
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
Double free vulnerability in the gdImagePngPtr function in libgd2 before 2.2.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to a palette with no colors.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6362
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6362
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3961
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2BLXX7KNRE7ZVQAKGTHHWS33CUCXVUP/
- https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/381
- https://github.com/libgd/libgd/releases/tag/gd-2.2.5
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-6362
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2BLXX7KNRE7ZVQAKGTHHWS33CUCXVUP/