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Debian: DSA 1260-1 Critical: Imagemagick Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2007
Scroller Debian
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 announces a critical patch for libxml2 addressing potential buffer overflow risks.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been
fixed in version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problems has been fixed in
version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14.

We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick packages.


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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 881 7a9c72b09064a000b21fb7f1c188f58b
Size/MD5 checksum: 142091 882c6b166d02a3afcf7b65b935053141
Size/MD5 checksum: 6824001 477a361ba0154cc2423726fab4a3f57c

Alpha architecture:

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