USN-386-1: ImageMagick vulnerability

28 November 2006

ImageMagick vulnerability

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Details

Daniel Kobras discovered multiple buffer overflows in ImageMagick's SGI
file format decoder. By tricking a user or an automated system into
processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to
execute arbitrary code with the user's 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 - 6:6.2.4.5-0.6ubuntu0.4
Ubuntu 5.10
  • libmagick6 - 6:6.2.3.4-1ubuntu1.5

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

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