15/11/2024

USN-7112-1: GD Graphics Library vulnerability

First published: Fri Nov 15 2024(Updated: )

It was discovered that the GD Graphics Library did not perform proper bounds checking while handling BMP and WebP files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (application crash).

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/libgd-dev	<2.3.0-2ubuntu2.3	2.3.0-2ubuntu2.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=22.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd-tools	<2.3.0-2ubuntu2.3	2.3.0-2ubuntu2.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=22.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd3	<2.3.0-2ubuntu2.3	2.3.0-2ubuntu2.3
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=22.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd-dev	<2.2.5-5.2ubuntu2.4	2.2.5-5.2ubuntu2.4
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=20.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd-tools	<2.2.5-5.2ubuntu2.4	2.2.5-5.2ubuntu2.4
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=20.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd3	<2.2.5-5.2ubuntu2.4	2.2.5-5.2ubuntu2.4
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=20.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd-dev	<2.2.5-4ubuntu0.5+esm3	2.2.5-4ubuntu0.5+esm3
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd-tools	<2.2.5-4ubuntu0.5+esm3	2.2.5-4ubuntu0.5+esm3
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd3	<2.2.5-4ubuntu0.5+esm3	2.2.5-4ubuntu0.5+esm3
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd-dev	<2.1.1-4ubuntu0.16.04.12+esm4	2.1.1-4ubuntu0.16.04.12+esm4
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=16.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd-tools	<2.1.1-4ubuntu0.16.04.12+esm4	2.1.1-4ubuntu0.16.04.12+esm4
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=16.04
All of
ubuntu/libgd3	<2.1.1-4ubuntu0.16.04.12+esm4	2.1.1-4ubuntu0.16.04.12+esm4
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=16.04

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(Contains the following vulnerabilities)

CVE-2021-40812

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