Severity
Medium
Vendor
libgd2, Canonical Ubuntu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Description
It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain color tables in XPM images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XPM image, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-2497)
It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain malformed GIF images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted GIF image, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2014-9709)
It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory when using gdImageFillToBorder(). A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8874)
It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory when using gdImageScaleTwoPass(). A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8877)
Hans Jerry Illikainen discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled 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-2016-3074)
Affected Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.64.0
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.64.0 or later versions
Credit
Hans Jerry Illikainen
References
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2987-1/
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-2497.html
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-9709.html
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8874.html
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8877.html
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-3074.html
