GLSA 201405-09: ImageMagick: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity:normal
Title:ImageMagick: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:05/17/2014
Bugs: #409431, #483032, #500988, #506562
ID:201405-09

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ImageMagick, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Background

ImageMagick is a collection of tools and libraries for manipulating various image formats.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
media-gfx/imagemagick < 6.8.8.10 >= 6.8.8.10 All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ImageMagick. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Note that CVE-2012-1185 and CVE-2012-1186 were issued due to incomplete fixes for CVE-2012-0247 and CVE-2012-0248, respectively. The earlier CVEs were addressed in GLSA 201203-09.

Impact

A remote attacker can utilize multiple vectors to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ImageMagick users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/imagemagick-6.8.8.10"
    

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-09.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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