CVE-2009-1882

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the XMakeImage function in magick/xwindow.c in ImageMagick 6.5.2-8, and GraphicsMagick, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TIFF file, which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

ImageMagick: 6.5.2-8

References

http://imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033766.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033833.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
http://mirror1.smudge-it.co.uk/imagemagick/www/changelog.html
http://osvdb.org/54729
http://secunia.com/advisories/35216
http://secunia.com/advisories/35382
http://secunia.com/advisories/35685
http://secunia.com/advisories/36260
http://secunia.com/advisories/37959
http://secunia.com/advisories/55721

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