31911 : ImageMagick coders/palm.c ReadPALMImage Overflow
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about 1 year ago

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Disclosure

Feb 08, 2007

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

ImageMagick contains a boundary error within the 'ReadPALMImage()' function in coders/palm.c that may allow a malicious user to cause a Denial of Service and possibly execute arbitrary code. In order to exploit this issue an attacker has to persuade the victim to open a malformed PALM image.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Technical

This issue is a result of an early published 'insufficient' patch and related to OSVDB ID 29990.

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Suse, Ubuntu, Debian and Mandriva have released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

ImageMagick Studio LLC
Watch-list
ImageMagick
Watch-list
6.0.7

References

Tools & Filters

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Credit

  • Vladimir Nadvornik -
  • M. Joonas Pihlaja - Ubuntu

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-02-13 | Disagree?

Access_vector_2 Access_complexity_1 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_2 Integrity_impact_2 Availability_impact_2

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