CVE-2008-6621 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-6621?

CVE-2008-6621 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick, published on 6 Apr 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in GraphicsMagick before 1.2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors in DPX images. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-6621?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick.

How do I fix CVE-2008-6621?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-6621 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-6621 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2017-11636 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-11637 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-11641 Denial of service in n/a Critical 9.8

All Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-6621, GHSA-2p2m-395c-w8p7.