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Slackware 11.0 SSA:2007-066-06 Critical Imagemagick Security Issue

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2007
Dist Slackware Esm H88
An updated ImageMagick package has been released for Slackware 11.0 to mitigate security vulnerabilities appropriately.
A new imagemagick package is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog: xap/imagemagick-6.3.3_0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz: Upgraded to imagemagick-6.3.3-0. The original fix for PALM image handling has been corrected. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5456 (* Security fix *) Where to find the new package: HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 11.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/imagemagick-6.3.3_0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz MD5 signature: Slackware 11.0

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg imagemagick-6.3.3_0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz

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