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[DSA331] DSA-331-1 imagemagick

Family:

Debian Local Security Checks

Category:

infos

Copyright:

This script is (C) 2004 Michel Arboi

Summary:

DSA-331-1 imagemagick

Version:

$Revision: 1.4 $

Cve_id:

CAN-2003-0455

Bugtraq_id:

8057

Xrefs:

DSA:331

Description:

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 : http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-331
Risk factor : High