Full Disclosure: [SECURITY] [DSA 1260-1] New imagemagick package fix arbitrary code execution
[SECURITY] [DSA 1260-1] New imagemagick package fix arbitrary code execution
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm_at_debian.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:04:27 +0100
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1260-1 security_at_debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
February 14th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : imagemagick
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : local(remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0770
Vladimir Nadvornik discovered that the fix for a vulnerability in the
PALM decoder of Imagemagick, a collection of image manipulation programs,
was ineffective. To avoid confusion a new CVE ID has been assigned;
tha original issue was tracked as CVE-2006-5456.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 6:6.0.6.2-2.9.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problems has been fixed in
version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14.
We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick packages.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce_at_lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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