Debian: DSA 646-1 Critical: ImageMagick Buffer Overflow Risk
debian
January 19, 2005
Andrei Nigmatulin discovered a buffer overflow in the PSD
image-decoding module of ImageMagick, a commonly used image
manipulation library
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.0.6.2-2.
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 3.0 alias woody
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Alpha architecture:
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