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Debian: DSA 957-2 Critical Command Injection Risk in ImageMagick

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2006
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The recent Debian security advisory details a critical update for ImageMagick addressing shell command injection vulnerabilities. Implement this patch to enhance your system's security
Florian Weimer discovered that delegate code in ImageMagick is vulnerable to shell command injection using specially crafted file names

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.0.6.2-2.6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.2.4.5-0.6.

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

Size/MD5 checksum: 852 fc5fe3786f18e31776c5109149beac1d
Size/MD5 checksum: 17314 476cdfed2f44b7408ddad37f4c3324cb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3901237 f35e356b4ac1ebc58e3cffa7ea7abc07

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: ...

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