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Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 06:35:59 CST

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TITLE:
GD Graphics Library Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13179

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13179/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
GD Graphics Library 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4178/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in GD Graphics Library, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to unspecified boundary errors in
calls to the "gdMalloc()" function and can be exploited to cause
buffer overflows.

Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary
code with the privileges of an application linked to the vulnerable
library.

SOLUTION:
Secunia is currently not aware of an official updated version, which
addresses the vulnerabilities.

However, updates have been issued by some Linux vendors.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
First reported in a Fedora advisory.

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