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gd: denial of service

Package(s):gd CVE #(s):CVE-2007-2756
Created:June 14, 2007 Updated:February 28, 2008
Description: Libgd2 has a denial of service vulnerability involving the incorrect validation of PNG callback results. If an application that is linked against libgd2 is used to process a specially-crafted PNG file, a denial of service involving CPU resource consumption can be caused.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0146-01 2008-02-28
Slackware SSA:2007-178-01 2007-06-27
SuSE SUSE-SR:2007:013 2007-06-22
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:124 2007-06-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:123 2007-06-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:122 2007-06-13
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