CVE-2007-2459

EPSS 6.4%

libimager-perl - buffer overflow

Published: 5/2/2007Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2459

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the BMP reader (bmp.c) in Imager perl module (libimager-perl) 0.45 through 0.56 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted 8-bit/pixel compressed BMP files.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/libimager-perlfrom 0, < 0.58-1
Debian/libimager-perlfrom 0, < 0.50-1etch1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-2459