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ImageMagick -- ReadPNMImage() heap overflow vulnerability

Affected packages
	ImageMagick	<	6.2.2
	ImageMagick-nox11	<	6.2.2

Details

VuXML ID	cd286cc5-b762-11d9-bfb7-000c6ec775d9
Discovery	2005-04-25
Entry	2005-04-27

Damian Put reports about ImageMagick:

Remote exploitation of a heap overflow vulnerability could allow execution of arbitrary code or course denial of service.

A heap overflow exists in ReadPNMImage() function, that is used to decode a PNM image files.

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	13351
URL	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111445767107869