CVE-2006-5456

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2006-09-29
Bugzilla:
210921: CVE-2006-5456 Overflows in GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick's DCM and PALM handling routines

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple buffer overflows in GraphicsMagick before 1.1.7 and ImageMagick 6.0.7 allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a DCM image that is not properly handled by the ReadDCMImage function in coders/dcm.c, or (2) a PALM image that is not properly handled by the ReadPALMImage function in coders/palm.c.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5456 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (ImageMagick) RHSA-2007:0015 2007-02-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (ImageMagick) RHSA-2007:0015 2007-02-15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (ImageMagick) RHSA-2007:0015 2007-02-15

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