USN-3302-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3302-1
30th May, 2017
imagemagick vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 16.10
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in ImageMagick.
Software description
- 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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 17.04:
-
libmagick++-6.q16-7
8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
-
imagemagick
8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
-
imagemagick-6.q16
8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
-
libmagickcore-6.q16-3
8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
-
libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extra
8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 16.10:
-
libmagick++-6.q16-5v5
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.6
-
libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.6
-
imagemagick
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.6
-
imagemagick-6.q16
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.6
-
libmagickcore-6.q16-2
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu8.6
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
-
libmagick++-6.q16-5v5
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7
-
libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7
-
imagemagick
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7
-
imagemagick-6.q16
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7
-
libmagickcore-6.q16-2
8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.7
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
libmagick++5
8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7
-
libmagickcore5-extra
8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7
-
libmagickcore5
8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7
-
imagemagick
8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Source: USN-3302-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities
