Security fix for CVE-2015-8877

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Security fix for CVE-2016-5116

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for gd fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-6214: Buffer over-read issue when parsing     crafted TGA file [bsc#991436]

  - CVE-2016-6132: read out-of-bands was found in the     parsing of TGA files using libgd [bsc#987577]

  - CVE-2016-6128: Invalid color index not properly handled     [bsc#991710]

  - CVE-2016-6207: Integer overflow error within
    _gdContributionsAlloc() [bsc#991622]

  - CVE-2016-6161: global out of bounds read when encoding     gif from malformed input withgd2togif [bsc#988032]

  - CVE-2016-5116: avoid stack overflow (read) with large     names [bsc#982176]

  - CVE-2016-6905: Out-of-bounds read in function     read_image_tga in gd_tga.c [bsc#995034]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for gd fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-6214: Buffer over-read issue when parsing     crafted TGA file [bsc#991436]

  - CVE-2016-6132: read out-of-bands was found in the     parsing of TGA files using libgd [bsc#987577]

  - CVE-2016-6128: Invalid color index not properly handled     [bsc#991710]

  - CVE-2016-6207: Integer overflow error within
    _gdContributionsAlloc() [bsc#991622]

  - CVE-2016-6161: global out of bounds read when encoding     gif from malformed input withgd2togif [bsc#988032]

  - CVE-2016-5116: avoid stack overflow (read) with large     names [bsc#982176]

  - CVE-2016-6905: Out-of-bounds read in function     read_image_tga in gd_tga.c [bsc#995034]

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

This update for gd fixes the following issues :

  - security update :

  - CVE-2016-5116 [boo#982176]

  + gd-CVE-2016-5116.patch

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 affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-7456)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain malformed XBM images. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XBM image, an attacker could cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5116)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory when using _gd2GetHeader(). A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2016-5766)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain color indexes. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6128)

It was discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled memory when encoding a GIF image. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-6161).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an application using the libgd2 library (application crash), or potentially to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
92182	Fedora 23 : gd (2016-de6e26b8aa)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/14/2016	1/11/2021	critical
92078	Fedora 22 : gd (2016-363d307082)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/14/2016	1/11/2021	critical
93506	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gd (SUSE-SU-2016:2303-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/15/2016	1/6/2021	critical
93701	openSUSE Security Update : gd (openSUSE-2016-1108)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/26/2016	1/19/2021	critical
91512	openSUSE Security Update : gd (openSUSE-2016-688)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/8/2016	1/19/2021	critical
92011	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GD library vulnerabilities (USN-3030-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	7/12/2016	10/20/2023	critical
92327	Debian DSA-3619-1 : libgd2 - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	7/18/2016	1/11/2021	critical

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