CVE-2008-1097
EPSS 6.2%Published: 3/5/2008Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/graphicsmagickfrom 0, < 1.1.7-13
- Debian/imagemagickfrom 0, < 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1