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USN-4988-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

15 June 2021

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.

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Related notices

  • USN-5335-1: imagemagick, libmagickcore-dev, libmagick++-6-headers, libmagickcore-6-headers, imagemagick-6.q16, libmagickcore-6-arch-config, perlmagick, libmagick++-dev, libmagickwand-dev, libimage-magick-perl, libmagickcore-6.q16-2, libmagick++-6.q16-5v5, imagemagick-doc, libmagickcore-6.q16-dev, imagemagick-common, libmagickwand-6-headers, libmagick++-6.q16-dev, libmagickwand-6.q16-dev, libimage-magick-q16-perl, libmagickwand-6.q16-2, libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra