ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick: Denial of Service vulnerability

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200505-16 / ImageMagick
Release Date	May 21, 2005
Latest Revision	May 22, 2006: 02
Impact	normal
Exploitable	remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
media-gfx/imagemagick	< 6.2.2.3	>= 6.2.2.3	All supported architectures
media-gfx/graphicsmagick	< 1.1.6-r1	>= 1.1.6-r1	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #90423, #90595

Synopsis

ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick utilities can be abused to perform a Denial of Service attack.

2. Impact Information

Background

Both ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick are collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats.

Description

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the XWD decoder of ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick when setting a color mask to zero.

Impact

A remote attacker could submit a specially crafted image to a user or an automated system making use of an affected utility, resulting in a Denial of Service by consumption of CPU time.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ImageMagick users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.2.3"

All GraphicsMagick users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.2: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/graphicsmagick-1.1.6-r1"

4. References

CVE-2005-1739

Page updated May 21, 2005

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