CVE-2006-2906

CVE-2006-2906 affects the GD graphics library (libgd2) via the LZW decoding path in gdImageCreateFromGifPtr, causing an infinite loop and CPU denial of service when processing malformed GIFs. Affected packages include libgd2 used by PHP-gd and standalone libgd2 implementations; multiple advisorie...

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...