CVE-2008-1097

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ReadPCXImage function in the PCX coder in coders/pcx.c in (1) ImageMagick 6.2.4-5 and 6.2.8-0 and (2) GraphicsMagick (aka gm) 1.1.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pcx file that triggers incorrect memory allocation for the scanline array, leading to memory corruption.

Affected products

ImageMagick Graphicsmagick: 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.1.12
ImageMagick: 6.2.8.0, 6.2.8.1, 6.2.8.2, 6.2.8.3

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413034
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/43213
http://secunia.com/advisories/29786
http://secunia.com/advisories/29857
http://secunia.com/advisories/30967
http://secunia.com/advisories/36260
http://secunia.com/advisories/55721
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201311-10.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1858
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:099
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0145.html

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