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Gentoo: GLSA-200505-16 Normal: ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2005
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ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick utilities can be abused to perform a Denial of Service attack.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: May 21, 2005 Bugs: #90423, #90595 ID: 200505-16

Synopsis ======= ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick utilities can be abused to perform a Denial of Service attack.
Background ========= Both ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick are collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/imagemagick < 6.2.2.3 >= 6.2.2.3 2 media-gfx/graphicsmagick < 1.1.6-r1 >= 1.1.6-r1 --------------------...

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