gdImageGd2Ptr in gd_gd2.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 has a double free. NOTE: the vendor's position is "The GD2 image format is a proprietary image format of libgd. It has to be regarded as being obsolete, and should only be used for development and testing purposes.

The version of gd installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.35-27. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2044 advisory.

  - ** DISPUTED ** gdImageGd2Ptr in gd_gd2.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 has a double     free. NOTE: the vendor's position is The GD2 image format is a proprietary image format of libgd. It has     to be regarded as being obsolete, and should only be used for development and testing purposes.
    (CVE-2021-40145)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of gd installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.35-11.11. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1721 advisory.

  - ** DISPUTED ** gdImageGd2Ptr in gd_gd2.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 has a double     free. NOTE: the vendor's position is The GD2 image format is a proprietary image format of libgd. It has     to be regarded as being obsolete, and should only be used for development and testing purposes.
    (CVE-2021-40145)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the gd package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - ** DISPUTED ** gdImageGd2Ptr in gd_gd2.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 has a double     free. NOTE: the vendor's position is 'The GD2 image format is a proprietary image format of libgd. It has     to be regarded as being obsolete, and should only be used for development and testing purposes.'     (CVE-2021-40145)

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

According to the versions of the gd package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - ** DISPUTED ** gdImageGd2Ptr in gd_gd2.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 has a double     free. NOTE: the vendor's position is 'The GD2 image format is a proprietary image format of libgd. It has     to be regarded as being obsolete, and should only be used for development and testing purposes.'     (CVE-2021-40145)

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

According to the versions of the gd package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - read_header_tga in gd_tga.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted TGA file. (CVE-2021-38115)

  - ** DISPUTED ** gdImageGd2Ptr in gd_gd2.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 has a double     free. NOTE: the vendor's position is 'The GD2 image format is a proprietary image format of libgd. It has     to be regarded as being obsolete, and should only be used for development and testing purposes.'     (CVE-2021-40145)

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

According to the versions of the gd package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - read_header_tga in gd_tga.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 allows remote attackers     to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted TGA file. (CVE-2021-38115)

  - ** DISPUTED ** gdImageGd2Ptr in gd_gd2.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka LibGD) through 2.3.2 has a double     free. NOTE: the vendor's position is 'The GD2 image format is a proprietary image format of libgd. It has     to be regarded as being obsolete, and should only be used for development and testing purposes.'     (CVE-2021-40145)

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

An update of the libgd package has been released.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5068-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled certain GD

    and GD2 files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or expose sensitive information.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.
    (CVE-2017-6363)

    It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled certain TGA files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive information. (CVE-2021-381)

    It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause a crash. (CVE-2021-40145)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
175948	Amazon Linux 2 : gd (ALAS-2023-2044)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
173968	Amazon Linux AMI : gd (ALAS-2023-1721)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
158317	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : gd (EulerOS-SA-2022-1163)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
158010	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.6 : gd (EulerOS-SA-2022-1119)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
157984	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : gd (EulerOS-SA-2022-1065)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
156531	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.6 : gd (EulerOS-SA-2021-2891)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
156353	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.0 : gd (EulerOS-SA-2021-2850)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
155277	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : gd (EulerOS-SA-2021-2683)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
155272	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gd (EulerOS-SA-2021-2659)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
155264	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : gd (EulerOS-SA-2021-2708)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
154787	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : gd (EulerOS-SA-2021-2630)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
153497	Photon OS 3.0: Libgd PHSA-2021-3.0-0298	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
153495	Photon OS 4.0: Libgd PHSA-2021-4.0-0100	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
153491	Photon OS 2.0: Libgd PHSA-2021-2.0-0390	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
153137	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : GD library vulnerabilities (USN-5068-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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