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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5456 Detail

Current 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.


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Evaluator Solution

This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: GraphicsMagick, GraphicsMagick, 1.1.7 Unable to identify a patch for ImageMagick.

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/20070201-01-P.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick_1.1.7-9/changelog#versionversion1.1.7-9 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/22569 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22572 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22601 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22604 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22819 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22834 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22998 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23090 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23121 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24186 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24196 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24284 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24458 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-07.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-19.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.352092 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1213 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:193 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:041 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_66_imagemagick.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_3_sr.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.osvdb.org/29990 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0015.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452718/100/100/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459507/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20707 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-372-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-422-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4170 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4171 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210921 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29816 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1034 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-811 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9765 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5456
NVD Published Date:
10/23/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.