Description
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.
Published: 2006-10-23
Score: 5.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1213-1 New imagemagick packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1260-1 New imagemagick package fix arbitrary code execution
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5441 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-372-1 imagemagick vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-422-1 ImageMagick vulnerabilities
References
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ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick_1.1.7-9/changelog#versionversion1.1.7-9 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22569 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22572 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22601 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22604 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22819 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22834 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22998 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23090 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23121 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24186 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24196 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24284 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24458 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-07.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-19.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.352092 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1213 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:193 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:041 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_66_imagemagick.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_3_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.osvdb.org/29990 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0015.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452718/100/100/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459507/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20707 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-372-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-422-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4170 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4171 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210921 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29816 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1034 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-811 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5456 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9765 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5456 cve-icon
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Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick
Imagemagick Imagemagick
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:48:30.200Z

Reserved: 2006-10-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5456

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-10-23T17:07:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5456

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2006-09-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-5456 - Bugzilla

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