imagemagick vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-3714   CVE-2016-3715   CVE-2016-3716   CVE-2016-3717   CVE-2016-3718   CVE-2016-5118  

Several security issues were fixed in ImageMagick.

Nikolay Ermishkin and Stewie discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly sanitized untrusted input. A remote attacker could use these issues to execute arbitrary code. These issues are known as “ImageTragick”. This update disables problematic coders via the /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml configuration file. In certain environments the coders may need to be manually re-enabled after making sure that ImageMagick does not process untrusted input. (CVE-2016-3714, CVE-2016-3715, CVE-2016-3716, CVE-2016-3717, CVE-2016-3718)

2 June 2016

imagemagick vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 15.10
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in ImageMagick.

Software Description

  • imagemagick - Image manipulation programs and library

Details

Nikolay Ermishkin and Stewie discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly sanitized untrusted input. A remote attacker could use these issues to execute arbitrary code. These issues are known as “ImageTragick”. This update disables problematic coders via the /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml configuration file. In certain environments the coders may need to be manually re-enabled after making sure that ImageMagick does not process untrusted input. (CVE-2016-3714, CVE-2016-3715, CVE-2016-3716, CVE-2016-3717, CVE-2016-3718)

Bob Friesenhahn discovered that ImageMagick allowed injecting commands via an image file or filename. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5118)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
imagemagick - 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
imagemagick-6.q16 - 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
imagemagick-common - 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
libmagick++-6.q16-5v5 - 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
libmagickcore-6.q16-2 - 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1
Ubuntu 15.10
imagemagick - 8:6.8.9.9-5ubuntu2.1
imagemagick-6.q16 - 8:6.8.9.9-5ubuntu2.1
imagemagick-common - 8:6.8.9.9-5ubuntu2.1
libmagick++-6.q16-5v5 - 8:6.8.9.9-5ubuntu2.1
libmagickcore-6.q16-2 - 8:6.8.9.9-5ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
imagemagick - 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.1
imagemagick-common - 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.1
libmagick++5 - 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.1
libmagickcore5 - 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
imagemagick - 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.4
imagemagick-common - 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.4
libmagick++4 - 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.4
libmagickcore4 - 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.4

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References