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CVE-2006-5456

N/A

Published: October 23, 2006 at 05:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsImageMagickGraphicsMagick

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

GraphicsMagick · Graphicsmagick

95%

v ≤ 1.1.61.0 1.0.6 1.1 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.1.5

ImageMagick · Imagemagick

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (37)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SGI

Source: [email protected]

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/graphicsmagick/graphicsmagick_1.1.7-9/changelog#versionversion1.1.7-9

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/22569

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/22572

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/22601

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/22604

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/22819

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/22834

CVSS

5.1MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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