USN-4039-1: CImg vulnerabilities
USN-4039-1: CImg vulnerabilities CImg vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in CImg. Software Description cimg – C++ template image processing toolkit Details It was discovered that allocation failures could occur in CImg when loading crafted bmp images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7587) It was discovered that a heap-based buffer over-read existed in CImg when loading crafted bmp images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7588) It was discovered that a double free existed in CImg when loading crafted bmp images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-7589) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu [ more… ]