CVE-2006-2906 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-2906 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5.4
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 182334 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:031, published Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:10:41 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:46 2025