CVE-2005-0397

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in the SetImageInfo function in image.c for ImageMagick before 6.0.2.5 may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a filename argument to convert, which may be called by other web applications.

Affected products

ImageMagick: 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83542
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110987256010857&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-702
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-11.xml
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_17_imagemagick.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-070.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-320.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19586
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10302
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83542
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110987256010857&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-702

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