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GraphicsMagick XWD Decoding Denial of Service Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA15446  
Release Date: 2005-05-23
Last Update: 2005-05-26

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:GraphicsMagick 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-1739 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Tavis Ormandy has reported a weakness in GraphicsMagick, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA15429

Solution:
The weakness has been fixed in the CVS repository.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team.

Changelog:
2005-05-26: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Gentoo:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-16.xml


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