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  2. USN-5335-1

USN-5335-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

Publication date

18 March 2022

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in ImageMagick.

Releases

Packages

  • imagemagick - Image manipulation programs and library

Details

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values
when processing XPM image data or large images. 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.
(CVE-2020-19667, CVE-2017-13144)

Suhwan Song discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled memory
when processing PNG,PALM,MIFF image data. 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.
(CVE-2020-25664, CVE-2020-25665,

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values
when processing XPM image data or large images. 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.
(CVE-2020-19667, CVE-2017-13144)

Suhwan Song discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled memory
when processing PNG,PALM,MIFF image data. 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.
(CVE-2020-25664, CVE-2020-25665, CVE-2020-25674, CVE-2020-27753)

Suhwan Song discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values
when processing image data. 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.
(CVE-2020-25676, CVE-2020-27750, CVE-2020-27760, CVE-2020-27762,
CVE-2020-27766, CVE-2020-27770)

Zhang Xiaohui discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values
when processing image data. 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.
(CVE-2021-20176, CVE-2021-20241, CVE-2021-20243)

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
16.04 xenial libimage-magick-perl –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
imagemagick-common –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagickcore-6.q16-dev –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagickcore-dev –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
imagemagick –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libimage-magick-q16-perl –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
imagemagick-6.q16 –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagickcore-6-headers –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagick++-6.q16-5v5 –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
perlmagick –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagickcore-6-arch-config –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagick++-6.q16-dev –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagickwand-6.q16-dev –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagickcore-6.q16-2 –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  
libmagickwand-6.q16-2 –  8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm2  

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