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Bug 592722 (CVE-2016-6207)

Summary: <media-libs/gd-2.2.3: Integer overflow error within _gdContributionsAlloc()
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: graphics+disabled, vapier
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Aug/35
Whiteboard: A3 [glsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 587662    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-09-02 11:35:12 UTC
Integer overflow in the _gdContributionsAlloc function in gd_interpolation.c in GD Graphics Library (aka libgd) before 2.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory write or memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.
Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2016-12-04 11:09:08 UTC
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201612-09 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-09
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).