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CVE-2004-0990 in the critical feed json

Integer overflow in GD Graphics Library libgd 2.0.28 (libgd2), and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of se…

published 2004-10-28 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0988

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
28.3%
EPSS 28.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Integer overflow in GD Graphics Library libgd 2.0.28 (libgd2), and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via PNG image files with large image rows values that lead to a heap-based buffer overflow in the gdImageCreateFromPngCtx function, a different set of vulnerabilities than CVE-2004-0941.

Patch / fix

  • libgd2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0.30-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0990

  • gd RHEL 3 1.8.4-12.3.1
  • gd-progs RHEL 3 1.8.4-12.3.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:638

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-0990 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 gd 1.8.4-12.3.1, gd-progs 1.8.4-12.3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 gd 1.8.4-12.3.1, gd-progs 1.8.4-12.3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 gd 1.8.4-12.3.1, gd-progs 1.8.4-12.3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 gd 1.8.4-12.3.1, gd-progs 1.8.4-12.3.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:638

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-600)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

28.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-600 GD Graphics Library - Local Heap Overflow local, 2004-10-26

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Fix old broken CPEs.