USN-1544-1: ImageMagick vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• imagemagick - Image manipulation programs and library

Details

Tom Lane discovered that ImageMagick would not always properly allocate
memory. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into
opening a specially crafted PNG image, an attacker could exploit this to
cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with the privileges of
the user invoking the program.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04

• libmagick++4 - 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2
• imagemagick - 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 11.10

• imagemagick - 8:6.6.0.4-3ubuntu1.2
• libmagick++3 - 8:6.6.0.4-3ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 11.04

• imagemagick - 7:6.6.2.6-1ubuntu4.2
• libmagick++3 - 7:6.6.2.6-1ubuntu4.2

Ubuntu 10.04

• imagemagick - 7:6.5.7.8-1ubuntu1.3
• libmagick++2 - 7:6.5.7.8-1ubuntu1.3

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

References

• CVE-2012-3437