National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2440
Original release date:05/18/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Heap-based buffer overflow in the libMagick componet of ImageMagick 6.0.6.2 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via an image index array that triggers the overflow during filename glob expansion by the ExpandFilenames function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/19/2006)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192278
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345595
Type: Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0015
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1168
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24284
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24186
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21719
External Source: SGI
Name: 20070201-01-P