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SUSE update for imagemagick
Secunia Advisory: SA14700
Release Date: 2005-03-24
Popularity: 7,299 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:SuSE Linux 8.x
SuSE Linux 9.0
SuSE Linux 9.1
SUSE Linux 9.2
SuSE Linux Desktop 1.x
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

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Description:
SUSE has issued an update for imagemagick. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) A format string error within the handling of filenames can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by via a specially crafted filename containing format specifiers.

For more information:
SA14466

2) An unspecified boundary error within the handling of SGI files can be exploited cause a heap-based buffer overflow and potentially execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted SGI file.

This update also fixes some other errors in the handling of TIFF and PSD images, which can be exploited to crash ImageMagick.

Change Page:
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