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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-337-1 August 16, 2006 imagemagick vulnerability CVE-2006-4144 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.04 Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 5.04: libmagick6 6:6.0.6.2-2.1ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu 5.10: libmagick6 6:6.2.3.4-1ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libmagick9 6:6.2.4.5-0.6ubuntu0.1 After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: 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.