Debian: DSA 331-1 Critical: Imagemagick Insecure File Overwrite
debian
June 28, 2003
Thisvulnerability could be exploited by a local user to create oroverwrite files with the privileges of another user who is invoking a program using this library.
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Summary
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4:5.4.4.5-1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4:5.5.7-1.
We recommend that you update your imagemagick package.
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 3.0 alias woody
-------------------------------- Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 852 d5287cb8bb5ebea7feb163dce7eb8745
Size/MD5 checksum: 13713 97639f0bf3a5b64cdb64be4cad800b22
Size/MD5 checksum: 3901237 f35e356b4ac1ebc58e3cffa7ea7ab...
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