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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-7890: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 2, 2017
Added
Jan 2, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The GIF decoding function gdImageCreateFromGifCtx in gd_gif_in.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd), as used in PHP before 5.6.31 and 7.x before 7.1.7, does not zero colorMap arrays before use. A specially crafted GIF image could use the uninitialized tables to read ~700 bytes from the top of the stack, potentially disclosing sensitive information.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-gdalpine-linux-upgrade-php7
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