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USN-422-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

15 February 2007

ImageMagick vulnerabilities

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Details

Vladimir Nadvornik discovered that the fix for CVE-2006-5456, released
in USN-372-1, did not correctly solve the original flaw in PALM image
handling. By tricking a user into processing a specially crafted image
with an application that uses imagemagick, an attacker could 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 6.10
  • libmagick9 - 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.10ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 6.06
  • libmagick9 - 6:6.2.4.5-0.6ubuntu0.5
Ubuntu 5.10
  • libmagick6 - 6:6.2.3.4-1ubuntu1.6

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

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