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Ubuntu: 2021:1947-2 Low: ImageMagick Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2007
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Enhance your GIMP installations by updating packages to mitigate external security threats that could facilitate unauthorized code execution.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities a...
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Summary


Sean Larsson discovered several integer overflows in the processing
code for DICOM, PNM, PSD, RAS, XBM and XWD images, which might lead
to the execution of arbitrary code if a user is tricked into opening
such a malformed media file.

CVE-2007-2949

Stefan Cornelius discovered an integer overflow in the processing
code for PSD images, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary
code if a user is tricked into opening such a malformed media file.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.2.6-1sarge4. Packages for mips and mipsel are not yet
available.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed
in version 2.2.13-1etch4. Packages for mips are not yet available.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.2.17-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gimp packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpk...

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