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TITLE:
ImageMagick XWD Decoding Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15429

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15429/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
ImageMagick 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/3763/

DESCRIPTION:
Tavis Ormandy has reported a weakness in ImageMagick, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The problem is caused due to an infinite loop in the XWD decoder when
setting a colour mask and can be exploited to consume a large amount
of CPU resources via a specially crafted image.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.2.2-3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Gentoo:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-16.xml

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