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ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick security update are available for Gentoo Linux

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-16
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick: Denial of Service
vulnerability
Date: May 21, 2005
Bugs: #90423, #90595
ID: 200505-16

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Synopsis
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ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick utilities can be abused to perform a Denial of Service attack.



Background
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Both ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick are collection of tools to read, write and manipulate images in many formats.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-gfx/imagemagick < 6.2.2.3 >= 6.2.2.3
2 media-gfx/graphicsmagick < 1.1.6-r1 >= 1.1.6-r1
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the XWD decoder of ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick when setting a color mask to zero.

Impact
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A remote attacker could submit a specially crafted image to a user or an automated system making use of an affected utility, resulting in a Denial of Service by consumption of CPU time.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All ImageMagick users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.2.3"

All GraphicsMagick users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/graphicsmagick-1.1.6-r1"

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-16.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0