Buffer overflow - CVE-2015-8874
Published: May 16, 2016 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33629
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8874
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Stack consumption vulnerability in GD in PHP before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted imagefilltoborder call.
Affected software
gd (Alpine package)
gd
Fedora
gd
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2015-8874
Install update from vendor's website.
gd (Alpine package) - update to 2.1.1-r2
gd - addressed in versions 2.1.1-8.fc23, 2.2.2-1.fc24
gd - addressed in versions 2.1.1-8.fc23, 2.2.2-1.fc24
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00027.html
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3587
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2987-1
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66387
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731