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CVE-2006-2440

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—

Heap-based buffer overflow in the libMagick component of ImageMagick 6.0.6.2 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via an image index array that triggers the overflow during filename glob expansion by the ExpandFilenames function.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Imagemagick — Imagemagick

CWEs

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T22:25:00.880",
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      "comment": "Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:\nhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192278\n\nThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.  More information regarding issue severity can be found here:\nhttp://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/\n\nThis issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.\n",
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