CVE-2008-6070

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer underflows in the ReadPALMImage function in coders/palm.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.2.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PALM image, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0770. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

GraphicsMagick: through 1.2.2; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+17)

References

http://cvs.graphicsmagick.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/GraphicsMagick/coders/palm.c
http://secunia.com/advisories/30549
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=604837
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=604837&group_id=73485
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29583
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42904
http://cvs.graphicsmagick.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/GraphicsMagick/coders/palm.c
http://secunia.com/advisories/30549
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=604837
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=604837&group_id=73485
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29583
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42904

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