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CVE-2007-0455

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-01-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in the gdImageStringFTEx function in gdft.c in GD Graphics Library 2.0.33 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted string with a JIS encoded font.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 6.10, 7.04
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 13, 14
• Gd Graphics Library Project Gd Graphics Library: through 2.0.33
• PHP: from 4.4.0 before 4.4.7 — fixed in 4.4.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0, 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 3.0, 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 3.0, 4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PHP 4.4.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224607
• http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2631
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052848.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052854.html
• http://lists.rpath.com/pipermail/security-announce/2007-February/000145.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0155.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23916
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24022
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24052
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24053
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24107
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24143

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