Debian: DSA-2750-1: imagemagick security update

Date 03 Sep 2013

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

Anton Kortunov reported a heap corruption in ImageMagick, a program collection and library for converting and manipulating image files. Crafted GIF files could cause ImageMagick to crash, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2750-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer
September 03, 2013 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : imagemagick
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2013-4298
Debian Bug : 721273

Anton Kortunov reported a heap corruption in ImageMagick, a program
collection and library for converting and manipulating image files.
Crafted GIF files could cause ImageMagick to crash, potentially
leading to arbitrary code execution.

The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 8:6.7.7.10-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick packages.

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