Bug 504872 – <media-libs/gd-2.1.1: NULL pointer dereference may cause denial of service

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2014-03-17 09:56:47 UTC]

From ${URL} :

It was reported [1] that the gdImageCreateFromXpm() function in libgd could dereference a NULL pointer, 
noting:

"The call to strlen() parses image.colorTable[i].c_color which is initialised as NULL if the particular 
color mapping uses a different key (such as monochrome/monovisual)."

This was reported against PHP, which includes an embedded copy of the gd library.  CVE-2014-2497 was 
assigned to this issue [2].

[1] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66901
[2] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/580


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2015-02-16 14:38:10 UTC]

gd-2.1.1 is in the tree now, but will want to give it time to bake

[Comment 2 Yury German 2015-02-16 14:39:38 UTC]

Standard 30 Days, or less?

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2015-12-15 13:53:39 UTC]

doing stabilization via bug 538686

[Comment 4 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2016-06-28 02:58:41 UTC]

Added to existing GLSA request.

[Comment 5 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2016-07-16 13:11:36 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201607-04 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-04
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).