Vulnerability in Imagemagick
CVE-2006-4144
Integer overflow in the ReadSGIImage function in sgi.c in ImageMagick before 6.2.9 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via large (1) bytes_per_pixel, (2) columns, and (3) rows values, which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.110 (95.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.108 · newest: 0.110 · change: +0.002
Affected products
- Imagemagick — versions 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.2.5
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secunia.com/advisories/21679 (third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28372 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19507 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/21671 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/21832 (third-party-advisory)
- www.overflow.pl/adv/imsgiheap.txt (Exploit)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_50_imagemagick.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11129 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443362/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-605
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2006-4144?
- CVE-2006-4144 is a vulnerability in Imagemagick. Published 2006-08-15.
- Is CVE-2006-4144 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.