CVE-2008-1097: ImageMagick Graphicsmagick

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ReadPCXImage function in the PCX coder in coders/pcx.c in (1) ImageMagick 6.2.4-5 and 6.2.8-0 and (2) GraphicsMagick (aka gm) 1.1.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pcx file that triggers incorrect memory allocation for the scanline array, leading to memory corruption.

Affected products

• ImageMagick Graphicsmagick: version 1.1.7 only; version 1.1.8 only; version 1.1.9 only; version 1.1.10 only; version 1.1.11 only; version 1.1.12 only
• ImageMagick ImageMagick: version 6.2.8.0 only; version 6.2.8.1 only; version 6.2.8.2 only; version 6.2.8.3 only

Published 2008-03-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.