USN-340-1: imagemagick vulnerabilities

6 September 2006

imagemagick vulnerabilities

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Tavis Ormandy discovered several buffer overflows in imagemagick's Sun
Raster and XCF (Gimp) image decoders. By tricking a user or automated
system into processing a specially crafted image, this could be
exploited to execute arbitrary code with the users' privileges.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06
  • libmagick9 - 6:6.2.4.5-0.6ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 5.10
  • libmagick6 - 6:6.2.3.4-1ubuntu1.3
Ubuntu 5.04
  • libmagick6 - 6:6.0.6.2-2.1ubuntu1.4

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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