CVE-2015-8874

Publication date 16 May 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libgd2	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.1.1-4ubuntu0.16.04.1
	15.10 wily	Fixed 2.1.1-4ubuntu0.15.10.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.1.0-3ubuntu0.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6ubuntu2.1
php5	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
php7.0	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

php uses the system libgd2

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
libgd2	Upstream: 3824101

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2987-1
GD library vulnerabilities
31 May 2016

Other references