Bug 1489842 – CVE-2017-6362 gd: Double free in the gdImagePngPtr function

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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

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-6362

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1489844
Blocks:	1417990
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Reported:	2017-09-08 09:15 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-10-05 02:33 EDT (History)
CC List:	17 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	gd 2.2.5
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Last Closed:	2017-10-05 02:33:25 EDT
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-08 09:15:10 EDT

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 09:15:46 EDT

Created libwmf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1489844]

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