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Ubuntu Security Notice 854-1: GD library vulnerabilities


Article Source Ubuntu Security Notices
November 5, 2009, 11:32 am

Tomas Hoger discovered that the GD library did not properly handle the number of colors in certain malformed GD images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted GD image, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2009-3546)

It was discovered that the GD library did not properly handle incorrect color indexes. An attacker could send specially crafted input to applications linked against libgd2 and cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. (CVE-2009-3293)...

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