CVE-2006-5456

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    CVE-2006-5456

    Published: 23 Oct 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High