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CVE-2016-5766

Public on 2016-08-01
Modified on 2021-01-07
Description

An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow was found in the imagecreatefromgd2() function of PHP's gd extension. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash a PHP application or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that PHP application using gd via a specially crafted GD2 image.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core gd 2021-01-05 23:34 ALAS2-2021-1577
Amazon Linux 1 php55 2016-08-01 13:30 ALAS-2016-728
Amazon Linux 1 php56 2016-08-01 13:30 ALAS-2016-728

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H