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Gentoo GLSA-202303-16: ImageMagick Security Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A vulnerability in GraphicsMagick allows malicious users to crash the software and possibly run arbitrary code. It is important to update to the latest secure release immediately.
A vulnerability in GraphicsMagick allows attackers to crash the application and potentially execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200602-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: GraphicsMagick: Format string vulnerability Date: February 26, 2006 Bugs: #119476 ID: 200602-13

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in GraphicsMagick allows attackers to crash the application and potentially execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= GraphicsMagick is a collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/graphicsmagick < 1.1.7 >= 1.1.7
========== The SetImageInfo function was found vulnerable to a format string mishandling. Daniel Kobras discovered that the handli...

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