Debian: DSA 593-1 Critical: ImageMagick Arbitrary Code Execution

A vulnerability has been reported for ImageMagick, a commonly used
image manipulation library. Due to a boundary error within the EXIF
parsing routine, a specially crafted graphic images could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 5.4.4.5-1woody4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.0.6.2-1.5.

We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick packages.


Upgrade Instructions
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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
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