CVE-2018-14553

La función gdImageClone en el archivo gd.c en libgd versiones 2.1.0-rc2 hasta 2.2.5, presenta una desreferencia del puntero NULL que permite a atacantes bloquear una aplicación por medio de una secuencia de llamada de función específica.

It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled cloning an image. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GD Graphics Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service. It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled loading images from X bitmap format files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GD Graphics Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to disclose contents of the stack that has been left there by previous code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Various other issues were also addressed.