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Debian DSA-702-1 Moderate: ImageMagick DoS and Code Risk

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2005
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Upgrade ImageMagick on your Debian system to mitigate various vulnerabilities, including denial of service and risks of remote code execution.
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Summary


Tavis Ormandy discovered a format string vulnerability in the
filename handling code which allows a remote attacker to cause a
denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code.

CAN-2005-0759

Andrei Nigmatulin discovered a denial of service condition which
can be caused by an invalid tag in a TIFF image.

CAN-2005-0760

Andrei Nigmatulin discovered that the TIFF decoder is vulnerable
to accessing memory out of bounds which will result in a
segmentation fault.

CAN-2005-0762

Andrei Nigmatulin discovered a buffer overflow in the SGI parser
which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a
specially crafted SGI image file.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 5.4.4.5-1woody6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 6.0.6.2-2.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
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