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Gentoo: GLSA-200501-26 Normal: ImageMagick Heap Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2005
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This alert notifies about a buffer overflow in ImageMagick regarding PSD format files, potentially resulting in unauthorized code execution.
ImageMagick is vulnerable to a heap overflow when decoding Photoshop Document (PSD) files, which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-26 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ImageMagick: PSD decoding heap overflow Date: January 20, 2005 Bugs: #77932 ID: 200501-26

Synopsis ======= ImageMagick is vulnerable to a heap overflow when decoding Photoshop Document (PSD) files, which could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Background ========= ImageMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/imagemagick < 6.1.8.8 >= 6.1.8.8
========== Andrei Nigmatulin discovered that a Photoshop Document (PSD) file with more than 24 layers could trigger a heap o...

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