Intrusion PreventionGD.Graphics.Library.Remote.DoS
Description
This indicates an attack attempt against a Denial of Service vulnerability in GD Graphics Library.
The vulnerability is caused by an infinite loop error when processing a malformed gif image using the "gdimagecreatefromgifptr()" function. It can be exploited by attackers to exhaust all available memory resources via a specially crafted GIF image.
Affected Products
GD version 2.0.33
Impact
Denial of Service: Remote attackers can crash vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Currently we are not aware of any vendor supplied patches for this issue.
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 28860 |
| Created | Sep 02, 2011 |
| Updated | Nov 15, 2021 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2006-2906 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 10.93% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows, Linux |
| Affected App | Other |