National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5456
Original release date:10/23/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
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
Solution
This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release:
GraphicsMagick, GraphicsMagick, 1.1.7
Unable to identify a patch for ImageMagick.}
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210921
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-811
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1034
External Source: XF
Name: imagemagick-graphicsmagick-palm-bo(29816)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-422-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-372-1
External Source: BID
Name: 20707
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070208 rPSA-2007-0029-1 ImageMagick
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20061127 rPSA-2006-0218-1 ImageMagick
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0015
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 29990
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:003
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:066
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4171
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4170
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1213
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2007-066-06
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200611-19
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200611-07
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24458
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24196
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24186
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23121
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23090
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22998
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22834
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22819
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22604
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22601
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22572
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22569
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick_1.1.7-9/changelog#versionversion1.1.7-9
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:041
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:193
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:041
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:193
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24284
External Source: SGI
Name: 20070201-01-P