Debian Security Advisory 1936 libgd2 – several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2007-0455

  Kees Cook discovered a buffer overflow in libgd2’s font renderer. An attacker could cause denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted string with a JIS encoded font. This issue only affects the oldstable distribution (etch)…