CVE-2014-9709 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9709?

CVE-2014-9709 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The GetCode_ function in gd_gif_in.c in GD 2.1.1 and earlier, as used in PHP before 5.5.21 and 5.6.x before 5.6.5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted GIF image that is improperly handled by the gdImageCreateFromGif function.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9709?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Libgd Libgd, Opensuse Opensuse, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9709?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-9709 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9709 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9709, GHSA-p5p8-3769-2g8g, SUSE-SU-2015:0835-1, SUSE-SU-2015:0866-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9709.