Description

Ubuntu has issued an update for imagemagick. This fixes a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The weakness is caused due to ImageMagick looking for configuration files in the current directory, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of another user by e.g. tricking the user into running ImageMagick in a directory containing malicious configuration files.

Solution
Apply updated packages.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
USN-1028-1:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2010-December/001209.html

Deep Links
Links available to Secunia VIM customers