False vuxml alarms (ImageMagick)

Andrey Chernov ache at nagual.pp.ru
Thu Aug 12 02:49:47 PDT 2004


On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:34:30AM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Andrey Chernov wrote:
> 
> >Hi. When I try to build ImageMagick, I got error below, but it is false
> >alarm about libpng, which is already patched to remove overflow (and
> >freshly installed on my machine). I have no idea how to fix ImageMagick
> >building properly, please somebody do.
> >
> >===>  ImageMagick-6.0.2.7 has known vulnerabilities:
> >>>libpng stack-based buffer overflow and other code concerns.
> >   Reference:
> ><http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/f9e3e60b-e650-11d8-9b0a-000347a4fa7d.
> >html>
> >>>Please update your ports tree and try again.
> 
>   http://secunia.com/advisories/12236
> and
>   http://www.imagemagick.org/www/Changelog.html
> 
> list ImageMagick-6.0.2.7 as vulnerable. You can build it nevertheless 
> with make DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes ...

I talk not about workaround, I know it. I talk about the way of fixing it 
_properly_. It is NOT vulnerable really.

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Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/


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