CVE-2008-1097 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ReadPCXImage function in the PCX coder in coders/pcx.c in (1) ImageMagick 6.2.4-5 and 6.2.8-0 and (2) GraphicsMagick (aka gm) 1.1.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pcx file that triggers incorrect memory allocation for the scanline array leading to memory corruption.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413034 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html http://osvdb.org/43213 http://secunia.com/advisories/29786 http://secunia.com/advisories/29857 http://secunia.com/advisories/30967 http://secunia.com/advisories/36260 http://secunia.com/advisories/55721 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201311-10.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1858 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:099 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0145.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0165.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28822 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019881 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=285861 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41193 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11237