Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for ImageMagick. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for ImageMagick
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29857
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29857/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
http://secunia.com/product/48/
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
http://secunia.com/product/1306/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
http://secunia.com/product/1044/
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium
http://secunia.com/product/1326/
DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for ImageMagick. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause
a DoS (Denial of Service) and compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA24721
SA26926
This also fixes an error within the processing of certain specially
crafted PCX files, which potentially can be exploited by malicious
people to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0165.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA24721:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24721/
SA26926:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26926/
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