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php: Signedness vulnerability causing heap overflow in libgd

Published Apr 26, 2016

Description

Integer signedness error in GD Graphics Library 2.1.1 (aka libgd or libgd2) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code via crafted compressed gd2 data, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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Remediation

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References (22)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Apr 26, 2016
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Mar 10, 2016
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Apr 22, 2016