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>> ImageMagick PNM Image Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : ImageMagick PNM Image Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0384
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-04-25


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A new vulnerability was identified in ImageMagick, which may be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a heap overflow error in the "ReadPNMImage()" function when handling specially crafted "PNM" images, which may be exploited to crash a vulnerable application.

Affected Products

ImageMagick version 6.2.1 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to ImageMagick version 6.2.2 :
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0384
http://www.overflow.pl/adv/imheapoverflow.txt
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Damian Put

ChangeLog

2005-04-25 : Initial release

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