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=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-422-1 February 15, 2007 imagemagick vulnerabilities CVE-2006-5456, CVE-2007-0770 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 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 5.10: libmagick6 6:6.2.3.4-1ubuntu1.6 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libmagick9 6:6.2.4.5-0.6ubuntu0.5 Ubuntu 6.10: libmagick9 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.10ubuntu0.2 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Vladimir Nadvornik discovered that the fix for CVE-2006-5456, released in USN-372-1, did not correctly solve the original flaw in PALM image handling. By tricking a user into processing a specially crafted image with an application that uses imagemagick, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.