A new imagemagick package is available for Slackware 11.0 to fix security issues.

More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5456


Here are the details from the Slackware 11.0 ChangeLog:
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xap/imagemagick-6.3.3_0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz:
Upgraded to imagemagick-6.3.3-0.
The original fix for PALM image handling has been corrected.
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5456
(* Security fix *)
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Where to find the new package:
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HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading from ftp.slackware.com.

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project!

Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you.

Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/patches/packages/imagemagick-6.3.3_0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz


MD5 signature:
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Slackware 11.0 package:
aa74825b927c5fcd596cbc4fdbbb5e1f imagemagick-6.3.3_0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz


Installation instructions:
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Upgrade the package as root:
# upgradepkg imagemagick-6.3.3_0-i486-1_slack11.0.tgz


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Slackware Linux Security Team
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