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Debian: DSA-3548-1 Moderate: GIMP Code Execution Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2016
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Ubuntu security patch resolves various flaws in GIMP, tackling memory corruption and denial of service threats.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Imagemagick, a program suite for image manipulation
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u4.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem was already fixed in
version 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u1, in the last point release.

We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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