Gentoo: GLSA-200609-14 Normal: ImageMagick Buffer Overflow Risk
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September 26, 2006
Multiple buffer overflows have been discovered in ImageMagick, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
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
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Multiple buffer overflows have been discovered in ImageMagick, which
could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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ImageMagick is a free software suite to manipulate, convert, and create
many image formats.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-gfx/imagemagick < 6.2.9.5 >= 6.2.9.5
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Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a stack and heap
buffer overflow in the GIMP XCF Image d...
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