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TITLE:
Imagemagick Filename Handling Format String Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14466

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14466/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
ImageMagick 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/3763/

DESCRIPTION:
Tavis Ormandy has reported a vulnerability in ImageMagick, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error within the
handling of filenames and can be exploited by passing a specially
crafted filename containing format specifiers.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user running ImageMagick.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.2.0-3 or later.
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/downloads.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tavis Ormandy

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-90-1

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