VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7568

critical
Published 2016-09-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Integer overflow in the gdImageWebpCtx function in gd_webp.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd) through 2.2.3, as used in PHP through 7.0.11, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted imagewebp and imagedestroy calls.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.2.3-87-gd0fec80-1
sid Fixed 2.2.3-87-gd0fec80-1
forky Fixed 2.2.3-87-gd0fec80-1
bullseye Fixed 2.2.3-87-gd0fec80-1
bookworm Fixed 2.2.3-87-gd0fec80-1
8.0 Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 7.0.13-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libgdlibgd{"endIncluding":"2.2.3"}
php phpphp{"startIncluding":"5.6.0","endIncluding":"5.6.26"}

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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