CVE-2015-8877
N/A
Published: May 22, 2016 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:35 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsPHPLibgd
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
The gdImageScaleTwoPass function in gd_interpolation.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd) before 2.2.0, as used in PHP before 5.6.12, uses inconsistent allocate and free approaches, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted call, as demonstrated by a call to the PHP imagescale function.
Remediation
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References (7)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3587x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/libgd/libgd/commit/4751b606fa38edc456d627140898a7ec679fcc24Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399
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