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libgd2: buffer overflow

Package(s):libgd2 CVE #(s):CVE-2007-3996
Created:December 19, 2007 Updated:July 22, 2008
Description: The GD library does not perform proper bounds checking when creating images; as a result, an attacker could, via crafted input, potentially execute arbitrary code.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1613-1 2008-07-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:004 2008-01-29
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0891-01 2007-10-25
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0917-01 2007-10-23
Ubuntu USN-557-1 2007-12-18
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