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Debian DSA-1260-1 : imagemagick - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 24347

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Vladimir Nadvornik discovered that the fix for a vulnerability in the PALM decoder of Imagemagick, a collection of image manipulation programs, was ineffective. To avoid confusion a new CVE ID has been assigned; the original issue was tracked as CVE-2006-5456.

Solution

Upgrade the imagemagick packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 6:6.0.6.2-2.9.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-5456

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1260

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24347

File Name: debian_DSA-1260.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/15/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:imagemagick, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0770

DSA: 1260