CVE-2006-5456

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5456
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-10-23 17:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5.1 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick 1.0 All All All
Application Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick 1.0.6 All All All
Application Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick 1.1 All All All
Application Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick 1.1.3 All All All
Application Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick 1.1.4 All All All
Application Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick 1.1.5 All All All
Application Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick All All All All
Application Imagemagick Imagemagick 6.0.7 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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ImageMagick PALM and DCM Buffer Overflows - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
210921 – (CVE-2006-5456) CVE-2006-5456 Overflows in GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick's DCM and PALM handling routines af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Patch
GraphicsMagick PALM DCM Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1213-1 imagemagick af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-811 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
Red Hat update for ImageMagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian update for imagemagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
rPath update for ImageMagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
GraphicsMagick: PALM and DCM buffer overflows — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Mandriva update for ImageMagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Gentoo update for graphicsmagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packages.debian.org
Gentoo update for imagemagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1034 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
SUSE update for ImageMagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- ImageMagick: PALM and DCM buffer overflows af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
usn/usn-372-1 - Ubuntu: Linux for human beings af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 patches.sgi.com
Ubuntu update for imagemagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
GraphicsMagick Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
USN-422-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
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Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Ubuntu update for imagemagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Slackware update for imagemagick - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
www.osvdb.org/29990 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
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Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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