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Mandriva Advisories MDKSA-2006:112 : gd

 

Updated gd packages fix DoS vulnerability.

June 27th, 2006

 

The LZW decoding in the gdImageCreateFromGifPtr function in the Thomas

 

Boutell graphics draw (GD) library (aka libgd) 2.0.33 allows remote

 

attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via malformed

 

GIF data that causes an infinite loop.

 

 

 

gd-2.0.15 in Corporate 3.0 is not affected by this issue.

 

 

 

Packages have been patched to correct this issue.

 

 

The released versions of Mandriva GNU/Linux affected are:

  • 10.2
  • 2006.0

Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at:

www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:112

 

Other references:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2906

 

Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v: mdksec2mub,v 1.2 2006/06/01 20:04:28 pituko Exp $)

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