Bug 1489842 (CVE-2017-6362) - CVE-2017-6362 gd: Double free in the gdImagePngPtr function
Summary: CVE-2017-6362 gd: Double free in the gdImagePngPtr function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-6362
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1489844
Blocks: 1417990
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-08 13:15 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:21 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: gd 2.2.5
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Last Closed: 2017-10-05 06:33:25 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-08 13:15:10 UTC 
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.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/381

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/libgd/libgd/commit/56ce6ef068b954ad28379e83cca04feefc51320c
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-08 13:15:46 UTC 
Created libwmf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1489844]
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