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USN-4034-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

25 June 2019

Several security issues were fixed in ImageMagick.

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Releases

Packages

  • imagemagick - Image manipulation programs and library

Details

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain malformed
image files. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked
into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to
cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of
the user invoking the program.

Due to a large number of issues discovered in GhostScript that prevent it
from being used by ImageMagick safely, the update for Ubuntu 18.10 and
Ubuntu 19.04 includes a default policy change that disables support for the
Postscript and PDF formats in ImageMagick. This policy can be overridden if
necessary by using an alternate ImageMagick policy configuration.

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Related notices

  • USN-3785-1: libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-dev, imagemagick-6.q16hdri, libmagickcore-6-headers, libmagickwand-6.q16-dev, libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-3, libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3, libmagick++-6.q16-7, libmagick++-6.q16hdri-dev, libmagick++-6-headers, libmagickcore5, libmagick++5, libmagickwand-6-headers, libmagickcore5-extra, libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extra, libmagickwand-6.q16-2, libmagickwand-dev, imagemagick-6-common, libimage-magick-q16hdri-perl, libmagick++-dev, libmagickcore-6.q16-2, libmagickwand5, libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra, perlmagick, libmagickcore-dev, libmagickcore-6-arch-config, libimage-magick-perl, libmagick++-6.q16hdri-7, imagemagick, imagemagick-6.q16, libmagickcore-6.q16-3, libmagickwand-6.q16-3, libimage-magick-q16-perl, libmagick++-6.q16-dev, libmagick++-6.q16-5v5, libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3-extra, libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-dev, imagemagick-common, libmagickcore-6.q16-dev, imagemagick-doc, imagemagick-6-doc