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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS USN-4248-1: GraphicsMagick Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Ubuntu GraphicsMagick updates to mitigate denial of service threats and enhance security.
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 ubuntu graphicsmagick

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  graphicsmagick                  1.3.23-1ubuntu0.5
  libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12      1.3.23-1ubuntu0.5
  libgraphicsmagick-q16-3         1.3.23-1ubuntu0.5

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4248-1

CVE-2017-16545, CVE-2017-16547, CVE-2017-16669, CVE-2017-17498,

CVE-2017-17500, CVE-2017-17501, CVE-2017-17502, CVE-2017-17503,

CVE-2017-17782, CVE-2017-17783

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January 22, 2020

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security advisory denial of service security issue ubuntu graphicsmagick

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphicsmagick/1.3.23-1ubuntu0.5

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