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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5711: Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5711: Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/16/2018
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/16/2019
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

gd_gif_in.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd), as used in PHP before 5.6.33, 7.0.x before 7.0.27, 7.1.x before 7.1.13, and 7.2.x before 7.2.1, has an integer signedness error that leads to an infinite loop via a crafted GIF file, as demonstrated by a call to the imagecreatefromgif or imagecreatefromstring PHP function. This is related to GetCode_ and gdImageCreateFromGifCtx.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-gd

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