CVE-2016-7127

Publication date 11 September 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

The imagegammacorrect function in ext/gd/gd.c in PHP before 5.6.25 and 7.x before 7.0.10 does not properly validate gamma values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact by providing different signs for the second and third arguments.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libgd2 16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
php5 16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.25
php7.0 16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Notes

tyhicks

The flaw is in the PHP code sitting in front of libgd2 and libgd2 does not have a part in this particular operation.

Patch details

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Package Patch details
php5
php7.0

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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