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Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 USN-1949-1 Moderate: ImageMagick Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey September 10, 2013
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The latest Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-2030-1 highlights a security flaw in ImageMagick, which could lead to service disruption or potential code execution risks.
ImageMagick could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

ImageMagick could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- imagemagick: Image manipulation programs and library

Details:

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled decoding GIF image

comments. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into

opening a specially crafted GIF 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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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update ubuntu imagemagick

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 13.04:
  libmagick++5                    8:6.7.7.10-5ubuntu2.1
  libmagickcore5                  8:6.7.7.10-5ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
  libmagick++5                    8:6.7.7.10-2ubuntu4.1
  libmagickcore5                  8:6.7.7.10-2ubuntu4.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1949-1

CVE-2013-4298

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September 10, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service software update ubuntu imagemagick

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/8:6.7.7.10-5ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/8:6.7.7.10-2ubuntu4.1

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