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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-3074 Detail

Description

Integer signedness error in GD Graphics Library 2.1.1 (aka libgd or libgd2) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code via crafted compressed gd2 data, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183263.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183724.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00031.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136757/libgd-2.1.1-Signedness.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Apr/72 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3556 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3602 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538160/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/87087 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035659 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.383127 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2987-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/libgd/libgd/commit/2bb97f407c1145c850416a3bfbcc8cf124e68a19 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-04 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-22 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39736/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-681 Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-3074
NVD Published Date:
04/26/2016
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.