CVE-2007-2459

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the BMP reader (bmp.c) in Imager perl module (libimager-perl) 0.45 through 0.56 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted 8-bit/pixel compressed BMP files.

Affected products

Tony Cook Imager: 0.44, 0.44_1, 0.45, 0.45_2, 0.46, 0.47 (+9)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421582
http://imager.perl.org/a/65.html
http://osvdb.org/35470
http://osvdb.org/39846
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=26811
http://secunia.com/advisories/25038
http://secunia.com/advisories/28868
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1498
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23711
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1587
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34010
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421582

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