CVE DATABASE / CVE-2007-4988
CVE-2007-4988
CVSS 7.8 · HIGH
Summary
Sign extension error in the ReadDIBImage function in ImageMagick before 6.3.5-9 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted width value in an image file, which triggers an integer overflow and a heap-based buffer overflow.
CVSS 3.1 breakdown
| Base score | 7.8 (HIGH) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack vector | LOCAL |
| Attack complexity | LOW |
| Privileges required | NONE |
| User interaction | REQUIRED |
| Scope | UNCHANGED |
| Confidentiality | HIGH |
| Integrity | HIGH |
| Availability | HIGH |
Weakness type (CWE)
Affected products
Imagemagick imagemagickCanonical ubuntu linux
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References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186030
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=597
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26926
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27048
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27309
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27364
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27439
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28721
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29786
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36260
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-27.xml
- http://studio.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-announce/2007-September/000037.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1858
- http://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php
- http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:035
Data: NIST NVD. NVD last modified 2026-04-23. Always verify against the vendor advisory before acting.