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

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Calendar Grey September 8, 2004
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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
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ImageMagick, imlib and imlib2 contain exploitable buffer overflow
vulnerabilities in the BMP image processing code.

Background
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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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