USN-1435-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

Releases

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

Packages

• imagemagick - Image manipulation programs and library

Details

Joonas Kuorilehto and Aleksis Kauppinen discovered that ImageMagick
incorrectly handled certain ResolutionUnit tags. If a user or automated
system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted
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.
(CVE-2012-0247, CVE-2012-1185)

Joonas Kuorilehto and Aleksis Kauppinen discovered that ImageMagick
incorrectly handled certain IFD structures. If a user or automated
system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially crafted
image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2012-0248, CVE-2012-1186)

Aleksis Kauppinen, Joonas Kuorilehto and Tuomas Parttimaa discovered that
ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain JPEG EXIF tags. If a user or
automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially
crafted image, an attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2012-0259)

It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain JPEG EXIF
tags. If a user or automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into
opening a specially crafted 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. (CVE-2012-1610)

Aleksis Kauppinen, Joonas Kuorilehto and Tuomas Parttimaa discovered that
ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain TIFF EXIF tags. If a user or
automated system using ImageMagick were tricked into opening a specially
crafted 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. (CVE-2012-1798)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04

• libmagick++4 - 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.1
• imagemagick - 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 11.10

• imagemagick - 8:6.6.0.4-3ubuntu1.1
• libmagick++3 - 8:6.6.0.4-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 11.04

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

Ubuntu 10.04

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

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

References

• CVE-2012-0247
• CVE-2012-0248
• CVE-2012-0259
• CVE-2012-1185
• CVE-2012-1186
• CVE-2012-1610
• CVE-2012-1798