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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: USN-4206-1 Critical: GraphicsMagick Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-4321-1 addresses security issues in ImageMagick with essential upgrade recommendations for users.
Several security issues were fixed in GraphicsMagick.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in GraphicsMagick.

Software Description:

- graphicsmagick: collection of image processing tools

Details:

It was discovered that GraphicsMagick incorrectly handled certain image files.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2017-10794, CVE-2017-10799, CVE-2017-11102, CVE-2017-11140,

CVE-2017-11403, CVE-2017-11636, CVE-2017-11637, CVE-2017-13147, CVE-2017-14042,

CVE-2017-6335)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue software update ubuntu graphicsmagick

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  graphicsmagick                  1.3.23-1ubuntu0.2
  libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12      1.3.23-1ubuntu0.2
  libgraphicsmagick-q16-3         1.3.23-1ubuntu0.2

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4206-1

CVE-2017-10794, CVE-2017-10799, CVE-2017-11102, CVE-2017-11140,

CVE-2017-11403, CVE-2017-11636, CVE-2017-11637, CVE-2017-13147,

CVE-2017-14042, CVE-2017-6335

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December 02, 2019

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security advisory denial of service security issue software update ubuntu graphicsmagick

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphicsmagick/1.3.23-1ubuntu0.2

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