RHSA-2020:5443 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: gd security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · December 15, 2020
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for gd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD creates PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, XPM, BMP images, among other formats.
Security Fix(es):
- gd: Integer overflow in _gd2GetHeader() resulting in heap overflow (CVE-2016-5766)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.