CVE-2006-2440

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-05-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the libMagick component of ImageMagick 6.0.6.2 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via an image index array that triggers the overflow during filename glob expansion by the ExpandFilenames function.

Affected products

ImageMagick: 6.0.6.2, 6.2.4

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345595
http://secunia.com/advisories/21719
http://secunia.com/advisories/24186
http://secunia.com/advisories/24284
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1168
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0015.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9481
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345595
http://secunia.com/advisories/21719
http://secunia.com/advisories/24186

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