Critical
Security advisory
Integer signedness error in the dynamicGetbuf function in gd_io_dp.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd) through 2.2.3, as used in PHP before 5.6.28 and 7.x before 7.0.13, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted imagecreatefromstring call.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-8670
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Integer signedness error in the dynamicGetbuf function in gd_io_dp.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka libgd) through 2.2.3, as used in PHP before 5.6.28 and 7.x before 7.0.13, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted imagecreatefromstring call.
osv:CVE-2016-8670
Complete source record
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