USN-681-1: ImageMagick vulnerability

1 December 2008

ImageMagick vulnerability

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Details

It was discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle certain
malformed XCF images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted image with an application that uses ImageMagick, an attacker
could cause a denial of service and possibly 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 7.10
Ubuntu 6.06

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications that
use ImageMagick, such as OpenOffice.org and Inkscape, to effect the
necessary changes.

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