CVE-2007-3478

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in gdImageStringFTEx (gdft_draw_bitmap) in gdft.c in the GD Graphics Library (libgd) before 2.0.35 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors, possibly involving truetype font (TTF) support.

Affected products

Gd Graphics Library Gdlib: through 2.0.34

References

http://bugs.libgd.org/?do=details&task_id=48
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40578
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-205.shtml
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052848.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052854.html
http://osvdb.org/37740
http://secunia.com/advisories/25855
http://secunia.com/advisories/26272
http://secunia.com/advisories/26390
http://secunia.com/advisories/26415
http://secunia.com/advisories/26467
http://secunia.com/advisories/26663

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