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Debian 8: DLA-1934-1 Critical: Cimg Command Injection Risk

debian lts
Calendar Grey September 28, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
Uncover essential enhancements for cimg within Debian LTS aimed at mitigating command injection vulnerabilities and rectifying buffer overflow problems.
Several issues have been found in cimg, a powerful image processing library
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Summary

CVE-2019-1010174 is related to a missing string sanitization on URLs,
which might result in a command injection when loading a special crafted
image.

The other CVEs are about heap-based buffer over-reads or double frees when
loading an image.


For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
1.5.9+dfsg-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cimg packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



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Package: cimg
Version: 1.5.9+dfsg-1+deb8u1
CVE ID: CVE-2018-7588 CVE-2018-7589 CVE-2018-7637 CVE-2018-7638

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security advisory update buffer overflow debian command injection image processing cimg

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