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SUSE: 2021:2834-1 Critical: LibXML2 Security Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2016
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Implement solutions to address various vulnerabilities in ImageMagick for SUSE, safeguarding system reliability and protection.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for ImageMagick fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - Several coders were vulnerable to remote code execution attacks, these coders have now been disabled. They can be re-enabled by exporting the following environment variable MAGICK_CODER_MODULE_PATH=/usr/lib64/ImageMagick-6.4.3/modules-Q16/coders/vu lnerable/ (bsc#978061) - CVE-2016-3714: Insufficient shell characters filtering leads to (potentially remote) code execution - CVE-2016-3715: Possible file deletion by using ImageMagick's 'ephemeral' pseudo protocol which deletes files after reading. - CVE-2016-3716: Possible file moving by using ImageMagick's 'msl' pseudo protocol with any extension in any folder. - CVE-2016-3717: Possible local file read by using ImageMagick's 'label'

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution important SUSE ImageMagick

References

#978061

Cross- CVE-2016-3714 CVE-2016-3715 CVE-2016-3716

CVE-2016-3717 CVE-2016-3718

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5

SUSE Manager Proxy 2.1

SUSE Manager 2.1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3714.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3715.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3716.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3717.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3718.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/978061

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:1275-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution important SUSE ImageMagick

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