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Fedora 26 : gd (2017-7cc0e6a5f5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 102937

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**Version 2.2.5** - 2017-08-30

 - **Security**

 - Double-free in gdImagePngPtr(). **CVE-2017-6362**

 - Buffer over-read into uninitialized memory.
 **CVE-2017-7890**

 - **Fixed**

 - Fix #109: XBM reading fails with printed error

 - Fix #338: Fatal and normal libjpeg/ibpng errors not distinguishable

 - Fix #357: 2.2.4: Segfault in test suite

 - Fix #386: gdImageGrayScale() may produce colors

 - Fix #406: webpng -i removes the transparent color

 - Fix Coverity #155475: Failure to restore alphaBlendingFlag

 - Fix Coverity #155476: potential resource leak

 - Fix several build issues and test failures

 - Fix and reenable optimized support for reading 1 bps TIFFs

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Solution

Update the affected gd package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-7cc0e6a5f5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 102937

File Name: fedora_2017-7cc0e6a5f5.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/5/2017

Updated: 11/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7890

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/2/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6362, CVE-2017-7890