1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-35-1

USN-35-1: imagemagick vulnerabilities

Publication date

1 December 2004

Overview

imagemagick vulnerabilities

Releases

Details

Markus Meissner discovered several potential buffer overflows in some
image decoding functions of ImageMagick. Decoding a malicious BMP or
DIB image or AVI video might result in execution of arbitrary code
with the user’s privileges.

Since imagemagick can be used in custom printing systems, this also
might lead to privilege escalation (execute code with the printer
spooler’s privileges). However, Ubuntu’s standard printing system does
not use imagemagick, thus there is no risk of privilege escalation in
a standard installation.

Markus Meissner discovered several potential buffer overflows in some
image decoding functions of ImageMagick. Decoding a malicious BMP or
DIB image or AVI video might result in execution of arbitrary code
with the user’s privileges.

Since imagemagick can be used in custom printing systems, this also
might lead to privilege escalation (execute code with the printer
spooler’s privileges). However, Ubuntu’s standard printing system does
not use imagemagick, thus there is no risk of privilege escalation in
a standard installation.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
4.10 warty libmagick6 – 

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