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Debian Security Advisory DSA 331-1 (imagemagick)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to imagemagick announced via advisory DSA 331-1.

Insight

Insight

imagemagick's libmagick library, under certain circumstances, creates temporary files without taking appropriate security precautions. This vulnerability could be exploited by a local user to create or overwrite files with the privileges of another user who is invoking a program using this library. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4:5.4.4.5-1woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4:5.5.7-1. We recommend that you update your imagemagick package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20331-1

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