CVE-2004-0990

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 28.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-03-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in GD Graphics Library libgd 2.0.28 (libgd2), and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via PNG image files with large image rows values that lead to a heap-based buffer overflow in the gdImageCreateFromPngCtx function, a different set of vulnerabilities than CVE-2004-0941.

Affected products

Gd Graphics Library Gdlib: 1.8.4, 2.0.1, 2.0.15, 2.0.20, 2.0.21, 2.0.22 (+4)
gentoo Linux: all versions
Openpkg: 2.1, 2.2, current
Suse Linux: 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2
Trustix Secure Linux: 1.5, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0001.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109882489302099&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/18717
http://secunia.com/advisories/20824
http://secunia.com/advisories/20866
http://secunia.com/advisories/21050
http://secunia.com/advisories/23783
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-071.shtml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-589
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-591
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-601
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-602

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