CVE-2006-2906

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...

libgd 2.0.33 infinite loop in GIF decoding ?

Introduction --------------- from http://www.boutell.com/gd/ GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD is written in C, and "wrappers" are available for Perl, PHP and other languages. GD creates PNG, JPEG and GIF images, among other formats. GD is...