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GLSA-200501-26 : ImageMagick: PSD decoding heap overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 16417

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200501-26 (ImageMagick: PSD decoding heap overflow)

 Andrei Nigmatulin discovered that a Photoshop Document (PSD) file with more than 24 layers could trigger a heap overflow.
 Impact :

 An attacker could potentially design a mailicous PSD image file to cause arbitrary code execution with the permissions of the user running ImageMagick.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All ImageMagick users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.1.8.8'

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?391d21e7

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200501-26

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 16417

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200501-26.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Published: 2/14/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:imagemagick, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0005

GLSA: 200501-26