DSA-1117-1 libgd2 -- insufficient input sanitising

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2006-2906  

It was discovered that the GD graphics library performs insufficient checks of the validity of GIF images, which might lead to denial of service by tricking the application into an infinite loop. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.33-1.1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.33-5. We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1117-1 libgd2 -- insufficient input sanitising

Date Reported:
21 Jul 2006
Affected Packages:
libgd2
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 372912.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2906.
More information:

It was discovered that the GD graphics library performs insufficient checks of the validity of GIF images, which might lead to denial of service by tricking the application into an infinite loop.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.33-1.1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.33-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your libgd2 packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2_2.0.33-1.1sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2_2.0.33-1.1sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2_2.0.33.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd-tools_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-noxpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libg/libgd2/libgd2-xpm-dev_2.0.33-1.1sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.