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CVE-2016-6912

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Double free vulnerability in the gdImageWebPtr function in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd) before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via large width and height values.

Affected products

• Libgd: through 2.2.3

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3777
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95843
• https://github.com/libgd/libgd/blob/gd-2.2.4/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/libgd/libgd/commit/a49feeae76d41959d85ee733925a4cf40bac61b2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3777
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95843
• https://github.com/libgd/libgd/blob/gd-2.2.4/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/libgd/libgd/commit/a49feeae76d41959d85ee733925a4cf40bac61b2

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