CVE-2018-1000222

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-415

Description

Libgd version 2.2.5 contains a Double Free Vulnerability vulnerability in gdImageBmpPtr Function that can result in Remote Code Execution . This attack appear to be exploitable via Specially Crafted Jpeg Image can trigger double free. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit ac16bdf2d41724b5a65255d4c28fb0ec46bc42f5.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Libgd: 2.2.5

References

https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/447
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00028.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3CZ2QADQTKRHTGB2AHD7J4QQNDLBEMM6/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-18
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3755-1/
https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/447
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00028.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3CZ2QADQTKRHTGB2AHD7J4QQNDLBEMM6/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-18
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3755-1/

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