Package : imagemagic Vulnerability : buffer overflows Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0827 Debian Bug : 268357
Marcus Meissner from SUSE has discovered several buffer overflows in the ImageMagick graphics library. An attacker could create a malicious image or video file in AVI, BMP, or DIB format that could crash the reading process. It might be possible that carefully crafted images could also allow to execute arbitrary code with the capabilities of the invoking process.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.4.4.5-1woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.0.6.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick packages.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
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 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------
