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ImageMagick EXIF Parser Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA12995  
Release Date: 2004-10-27

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:ImageMagick 6.x

CVE reference:CVE-2004-0981 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in ImageMagick, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the EXIF parsing routine. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a malicious image file containing specially crafted EXIF information.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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Solution:
Update to version 6.1.2 or later.
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/Changelog.html



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