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SUSE-SA:2006:050: ImageMagick

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the ImageMagick package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2006:050 (ImageMagick).

Several security problems have been fixed in ImageMagick:

- CVE-2006-3744: Several heap buffer overflows were found in the Sun
Bitmap decoder of ImageMagick during an audit by the Google Security
Team. This problem could be exploited by a possible hacker to execute code.

- CVE-2006-3743: Multiple buffer overflows were found by the Google
Security team in the XCF handling due to incorrect bounds checking.
This problem could be exploited by a possible hacker to execute code.

- CVE-2006-4144: An integer overflow in the ReadSGIImage function can
be used by attackers to potentially execute code.

- An infinite loop in ImageMagick caused by TransformHSB was fixed.

- An infinite loop in the handling of TIFF images was fixed.

Solution : http://www.suse.de/security/http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_50_imagemagick.html
Network Security Threat Level: Medium

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2007 Tenable Network Security

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