USN-681-1: ImageMagick vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• imagemagick -

Details

It was discovered that ImageMagick did not correctly handle certain
malformed XCF images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted image with an application that uses ImageMagick, an attacker
could cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code with
the user's privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

• imagemagick - 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• imagemagick - 6:6.2.4.5-0.6ubuntu0.8

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications that
use ImageMagick, such as OpenOffice.org and Inkscape, to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-1096