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Gentoo: GLSA-200609-14 Normal: ImageMagick Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Dealing with various buffer overflow vulnerabilities in ImageMagick as per the Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200609-14.
Multiple buffer overflows have been discovered in ImageMagick, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200609-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ImageMagick: Multiple Vulnerabilities Date: September 26, 2006 Bugs: #144091, #143533 ID: 200609-14

Synopsis ======= Multiple buffer overflows have been discovered in ImageMagick, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= ImageMagick is a free software suite to manipulate, convert, and create many image formats.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-gfx/imagemagick < 6.2.9.5 >= 6.2.9.5
========== Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a stack and heap buffer overflow in the GIMP XCF Image d...

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