Damian Put discovered a buffer overflow in imagemagick’s SGI file format decoder. By tricking an user or automated system into processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
17 August 2006
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Damian Put discovered a buffer overflow in imagemagick’s SGI file format decoder. By tricking an user or automated system into processing a specially crafted SGI image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes.
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