1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-337-1

USN-337-1: imagemagick vulnerability

Publication date

17 August 2006

Overview

imagemagick vulnerability

Releases

Details

Damian Put discovered a buffer overflow in imagemagick’s SGI file
format decoder. By tricking an user or automated system into
processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to
execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.

Damian Put discovered a buffer overflow in imagemagick’s SGI file
format decoder. By tricking an user or automated system into
processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to
execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.

Update instructions

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
6.06 dapper libmagick9 –  6:6.2.4.5-0.6ubuntu0.1
5.10 breezy libmagick6 –  6:6.2.3.4-1ubuntu1.2
5.04 hoary libmagick6 –  6:6.0.6.2-2.1ubuntu1.3

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