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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-340-1 September 06, 2006 imagemagick vulnerabilities CVE-2006-3743, CVE-2006-3744 =========================================================== 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 6:6.0.6.2-2.1ubuntu1.4 Ubuntu 5.10: libmagick6 6:6.2.3.4-1ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libmagick9 6:6.2.4.5-0.6ubuntu0.2 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Tavis Ormandy discovered several buffer overflows in imagemagick's Sun Raster and XCF (Gimp) image decoders. By tricking a user or automated system into processing a specially crafted image, this could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the users' privileges.