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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: USN-4207-1 Critical: GraphicsMagick Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS resolves various ImageMagick vulnerabilities through an essential patch that mitigates a potential code execution threat.
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 or other

unspecified impact.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue update instructions ubuntu image processing graphicsmagick

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  graphicsmagick                  1.3.28-2ubuntu0.1
  libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12      1.3.28-2ubuntu0.1
  libgraphicsmagick-q16-3         1.3.28-2ubuntu0.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4207-1

CVE-2018-20184, CVE-2018-20185, CVE-2018-20189, CVE-2019-11005,

CVE-2019-11006, CVE-2019-11007, CVE-2019-11008, CVE-2019-11009,

CVE-2019-11010, CVE-2019-11473, CVE-2019-11474, CVE-2019-11505,

CVE-2019-11506

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December 03, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue update instructions ubuntu image processing graphicsmagick

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphicsmagick/1.3.28-2ubuntu0.1

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