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Gentoo Linux 200409-12: Normal Severity Buffer Overflow in ImageMagick

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Calendar Grey September 8, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Recent security flaws in ImageMagick and Imlib might enable attackers to execute arbitrary code through specially designed BMP image files.
ImageMagick, imlib and imlib2 contain exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the BMP image processing code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200409-12
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: Normal Title: ImageMagick, imlib, imlib2: BMP decoding buffer overflows Date: September 08, 2004 Bugs: #62309, #62487 ID: 200409-12

Synopsis ======= ImageMagick, imlib and imlib2 contain exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the BMP image processing code.
Background ========= ImageMagick is a suite of image manipulation utilities and libraries used for a wide variety of image formats. imlib is a general image loading and rendering library.
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