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Re: [Overflow.pl] ImageMagick ReadSGIImage() Heap Overflow


From: Daniel Kobras <kobras () debian org>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:32:03 +0000 (UTC)

Damian Put <pucik <at> overflow.pl> writes:

Vendor: ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org)
Affected version: 6.x up to and including 6.2.8
Vendor status: Fixed version released (6.2.9)

There are some whitespace changes between 6.2.8 and 6.2.9 as well
as a fix for what looks like a different vulnerability (affecting
run-length encoded images only, but from what I can tell, 6.2.9
still  suffers from the flaw you described below. Can you please
clarify why you claim 6.2.9 to be fixed?

A heap overflow exists in ReadSGIImage() function, that is used to
decode a SGI image file. The vulnerable code is:

coders/sgi.c:

static Image *ReadSGIImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
ExceptionInfo *exception)
{
...
    iris_info.bytes_per_pixel=(unsigned char) ReadBlobByte(image);
...
    image->columns=iris_info.columns;
    image->rows=iris_info.rows;
...
    bytes_per_pixel=(size_t) iris_info.bytes_per_pixel;
    number_pixels=(MagickSizeType) iris_info.columns*iris_info.rows;
...
    iris_pixels=(unsigned char *)AcquireMagickMemory
(4*bytes_per_pixel*iris_info.columns*iris_info.rows); 

We can manipalute iris_info.rows, iris_info.columns and bytes_per_pixel
value. Allocation of memory to "iris_pixels" is based on this values.
When rows*cols*bytes_per_pixe*4 overflow integer variable, we can alloc not
enough memory for next operations, and cause heap overflow.

Regards,

Daniel.



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