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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: USN-4222-1 Critical: GraphicsMagick DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey December 16, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Updates addressing several vulnerabilities in Ubuntu's GraphicsMagick enhance security safeguards against possible denial of service attacks.
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 Ubuntu update instructions image processing GraphicsMagick

Update Instructions

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

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

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4222-1

CVE-2017-11638, CVE-2017-11641, CVE-2017-11642, CVE-2017-11643,

CVE-2017-12935, CVE-2017-12936, CVE-2017-12937, CVE-2017-13063,

CVE-2017-13064, CVE-2017-13065, CVE-2017-13134, CVE-2017-13737,

CVE-2017-13775, CVE-2017-13776, CVE-2017-13777

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December 16, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu update instructions image processing GraphicsMagick

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphicsmagick/1.3.23-1ubuntu0.3

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