Package : imagemagick Vulnerability : missing shell meta sanitising Problem type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-4601 BugTraq ID : 16093 Debian Bug : 345238
Florian Weimer discovered that delegate code in ImageMagick is vulnerable to shell command injection using specially crafted file names. This allows attackers to encode commands inside of graphic commands. With some user interaction, this is exploitable through Gnus and Thunderbird.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.4.4.5-1woody7.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6.0.6.2-2.5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.2.4.5-0.6.
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 - --------------------------------