High severity · published Sep 7, 2017
CVE-2017-6362
Double free vulnerability in the gdImagePngPtr function in libgd2 before 2.2.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to a palette with no colors
7.5
CVSS
5.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Double free vulnerability in the gdImagePngPtr function in libgd2 before 2.2.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to a palette with no colors.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.1% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
26 · source: NVD
LI
Libgd · Libgd
2.2.4 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6362
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6362
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3961
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/381
Patch
https://github.com/libgd/libgd/releases/tag/gd-2.2.5
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N2BLXX7KNRE7ZVQAKGTHHWS33CUCXVUP/
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