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Pardus: Imagemagick: Multiple Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2009-90            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2009-06-24
  Severity: 3
      Type: Remote
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Summary
======
Tielei Wang has discovered a vulnerability in ImageMagick, which can be

exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.


Description
==========
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error within the
"XMakeImage()" function in magick/xwindow.c. This can be  exploited  to

cause a buffer overflow via e.g. a specially crafted TIFF file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.



Affected packages:

  Pardus 2008:
    imagemagick, all before 6.4.4.10-25-9


Resolution
=========
There are update(s) for imagemagick. You can update  them  via  Package
Manager or with a single command from console:

    pisi up imagemagick

References
=========
  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id˜42
  * http://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php

  * http://secunia.com/advisories/35216/
 
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