Anton Kortunov reported a heap corruption in ImageMagick, a program collection and library for converting and manipulating image files. Crafted GIF files could cause ImageMagick to crash, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8:6.7.7.10-6. We recommend that you upgrade your imagemagick packages.

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands as well as through an X11 graphical interface (display).

imagemagick on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2750.html

---

Updated on 2015-03-25