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CVE-2008-1097

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
05/03/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:graphicsmagick:1.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:graphicsmagick:1.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:graphicsmagick:1.1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:graphicsmagick:1.1.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:graphicsmagick:1.1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:graphicsmagick:1.1.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:6.2.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:6.2.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:6.2.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick:imagemagick:6.2.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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