USN-2987-1

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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (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. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (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)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libgd2

Package

Name: libgd2
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libgd2@2.1.0-3ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.1.0-3ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.1.0-2

2.1.0-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.1.0-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libgd-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.1.0-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libgd-tools"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.1.0-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libgd2-noxpm-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.1.0-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libgd2-xpm-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "2.1.0-3ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libgd3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-2497",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "low"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-9709",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "low"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-8874",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "low"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-8877",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "low"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-3074",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libgd2