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Debian 9: DLA-2421-1 Moderate: cimg Command Injection & Memory Issues

debian lts
Calendar Grey October 30, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2422-1 tackles several vulnerabilities in the cimg library released on October 31, 2023.
Several issues have been found in cimg, a powerful image processing library
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Summary

Several issues have been found in cimg, a powerful image processing
library.

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 a crafted image.


For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version
1.7.9+dfsg-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cimg packages.

For the detailed security status of cimg please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/cimg

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: 1.7.9+dfsg-1+deb9u1
CVE ID: CVE-2018-7588 CVE-2018-7589 CVE-2018-7637 CVE-2018-7638

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security advisory debian command injection image processing double free buffer over-read cimg

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