Medium
Security advisory
The gdImageCreate function in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd) before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via an oversized image.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9317
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The gdImageCreate function in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd) before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via an oversized image.
osv:CVE-2016-9317
Complete source record
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