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 - --------------------
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 - --------------------------------