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CVE-2006-2906

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Description

The LZW decoding in the gdImageCreateFromGifPtr function in the Thomas Boutell graphics draw (GD) library (aka libgd) 2.0.33 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via malformed GIF data that causes an infinite loop.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/298-1/

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-939

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26976

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2174

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0038

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_31_php.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:122

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:113

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:112

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1117

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1067

http://secunia.com/advisories/23783

http://secunia.com/advisories/21186

http://secunia.com/advisories/21050

http://secunia.com/advisories/20887

http://secunia.com/advisories/20866

http://secunia.com/advisories/20853

http://secunia.com/advisories/20676

http://secunia.com/advisories/20571

http://secunia.com/advisories/20500

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-06-08

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.11966

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