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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-4144 Detail

Description

Integer overflow in the ReadSGIImage function in sgi.c in ImageMagick before 6.2.9 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via large (1) bytes_per_pixel, (2) columns, and (3) rows values, which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Evaluator Solution

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: ImageMagick, ImageMagick, 6.2.9

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060901-01-P.asc CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/21462 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21525 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/21621 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/21671 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/21679 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/21832 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22036 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22096 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/22998 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200609-14.xml CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1385 CVE, MITRE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016699 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1213 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:155 CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_50_imagemagick.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.overflow.pl/adv/imsgiheap.txt CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0633.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443208/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443362/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19507 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-337-1 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28372 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-605 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11129 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-4144
NVD Published Date:
08/15/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE