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Debian 5.0: DSA-4567-3 Severe: ImageMagick Buffer Overflow Notice

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2008
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Debian security patches improve exiftool addressing significant vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and memory leaks.
Inadequate EXIF property validation could lead to invalid memory accesses if executed on a maliciously crafted image, potentially including heap corruption and the ...

Summary


CVE-2007-6354

Inadequate EXIF property validation could lead to invalid memory
accesses if executed on a maliciously crafted image, potentially
including heap corruption and the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-6355

Flawed data validation could lead to integer overflows, causing
other invalid memory accesses, also with the potential for memory
corruption or arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2007-6356

Cyclical EXIF image file directory (IFD) references could cause
a denial of service (infinite loop).

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.98-1.1+etch1.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed
in version 0.98-1.1+0sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.01-0.1.


Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

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