Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200611-19

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Severity: Normal
Title: ImageMagick: PALM and DCM buffer overflows
Date: November 24, 2006
Bugs: #152672
ID: 200611-19

Synopsis

ImageMagick improperly handles PALM and DCM images, potentially
resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap
images, that can also read, write, and convert images in many other
formats.

Affected packages

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 Package                /  Vulnerable  /                Unaffected
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1 media-gfx/imagemagick < 6.3.0.5 >= 6.3.0.5

Description

M. Joonas Pihlaja has reported that a boundary error exists within the
ReadDCMImage() function of coders/dcm.c, causing the improper handling
of DCM images. Pihlaja also reported that there are several boundary
errors in the ReadPALMImage() function of coders/palm.c, similarly
causing the improper handling of PALM images.

Impact

An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted DCM or PALM
image with ImageMagick, and possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running ImageMagick.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ImageMagick users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2006-5456
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5456

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-19.xml

Concerns?

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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

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