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CVE-2007-4988

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-681

Description

Sign extension error in the ReadDIBImage function in ImageMagick before 6.3.5-9 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted width value in an image file, which triggers an integer overflow and a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 6.10, 7.04
• ImageMagick: before 6.3.5-9 — fixed in 6.3.5-9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.3.5-9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186030
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=597
• 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/29786
• 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

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