CVE-2007-4987

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the ReadBlobString function in blob.c in ImageMagick before 6.3.5-9 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file, which triggers the writing of a '\0' character to an out-of-bounds address.

Affected products

ImageMagick: 5.3.3, 5.3.8, 5.4.2.3, 5.4.3, 5.4.4.5, 5.4.7 (+51)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186030
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=595
http://secunia.com/advisories/26926
http://secunia.com/advisories/27048
http://secunia.com/advisories/27309
http://secunia.com/advisories/27364
http://secunia.com/advisories/27439
http://secunia.com/advisories/28721
http://secunia.com/advisories/36260
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-27.xml
http://studio.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-announce/2007-September/000037.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1858

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