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Fedora 24 : gd (2016-a4d48d6fd6)

high Nessus Plugin ID 92275

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**Version 2.2.2**

Security related fixes :

 - Integer Overflow in gdImagePaletteToTrueColor() resulting in heap overflow (CVE-2016-5767)

 - Stack overflow with gdImageFillToBorder (CVE-2015-8874)

 - Integer Overflow in _gd2GetHeader() resulting in heap overflow (CVE-2016-5766)

 - NULL pointer Dereference at _gdScaleVert

 - Integer Overflow in gdImagePaletteToTrueColor() in heap overflow

Numerous other fixes have been applied. The scale and rotation functions have been greatly improved as well.

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.

Solution

Update the affected gd package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-a4d48d6fd6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92275

File Name: fedora_2016-a4d48d6fd6.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/15/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/16/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8874, CVE-2016-5766, CVE-2016-5767