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SUSE: 2016:1614-1 Important: GraphicsMagick Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey June 17, 2016
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Essential SUSE Patch for ImageMagick resolves several high-priority vulnerabilities, enhancing both software reliability and system protection.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for GraphicsMagick fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-5118: popen() shell vulnerability via special filenames (bnc#982178). - CVE-2013-4589: The ExportAlphaQuantumType function in export.c in GraphicsMagick might have allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to exporting the alpha of an 8-bit RGBA image (bsc#851064). - CVE-2015-8808: Out-of-bound read in the parsing of GIF files (bnc#965574). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3: zypper in -t patch slestso13-GraphicsMagick-12619=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch sdksp4-GraphicsMagick-12619=1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important SUSE Studio GraphicsMagick shell vulnerability

References

#851064 #965574 #982178

Cross- CVE-2013-4589 CVE-2015-8808 CVE-2016-5118

Affected Products:

SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4589.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8808.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5118.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/851064

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965574

https://bugzilla.suse.com/982178

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:1614-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service important SUSE Studio GraphicsMagick shell vulnerability

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