Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0421 (libgd)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0421: Updated libgd packages fixe security vulnerabilities 
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Thu, 22 Dec 2016 22:41:32 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0421 - Updated libgd packages fixe security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 22 Dec 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0421.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6911,
     CVE-2016-8670

Description:
Ibrahim El-Sayed discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled
certain malformed Tiff images. If a user or automated system were
tricked into processing a specially crafted Tiff image, an attacker
could cause a denial of service (CVE-2016-6911).

Emmanuel Law discovered that the GD library incorrectly handled certain
strings when creating images. If a user or automated system were tricked
into processing a specially crafted image, an attacker could cause a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code (CVE-2016-8670).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19594
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3117-1
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6911
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8670

SRPMS:
- 5/core/libgd-2.2.3-1.4.mga5