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>> ImageMagick "ReadSGIImage()" SGI Image Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : ImageMagick "ReadSGIImage()" SGI Image Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-3279
CVE ID : CVE-2006-4144
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-08-16
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A vulnerability has been identified in ImageMagick, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an integer overflow error in the "ReadSGIImage()" function when decoding malformed SGI image files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an application linked against a vulnerable library or compromise a vulneable system via a specially crafted image.
Affected Products
ImageMagick version 6.2.8 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to ImageMagick version 6.2.9 :
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3279
http://www.overflow.pl/adv/imsgiheap.txt
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Damian Put
ChangeLog
2006-08-16 : Initial release
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