CVE-2006-2906
Published Jun 8, 2006
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The LZW decoding in the gdImageCreateFromGifPtr function in the Thomas Boutell graphics draw (GD) library (aka libgd) 2.0.33 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via malformed GIF data that causes an infinite loop.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.4
- Impact score
- 6.9
- Exploitability score
- 4.9
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Vendor comments
- Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
Configurations
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