USN-5335-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

18 March 2022

Several security issues were fixed in ImageMagick.

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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, 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)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04

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

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