MGASA-2016-0257

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    MGASA-2016-0257

    Published: 19 Jul 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated imagemagick packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Updated imagemagick package fixes security vulnerabilities: The OpenBlob function in blob.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a | (pipe) character at the start of a filename (CVE-2016-5118). Integer overflow in MagickCore/profile.c (CVE-2016-5841). Buffer overread in MagickCore/property.c (CVE-2016-5842). Also, several packages have been rebuilt to use the updated Magick++-6.Q16 library. These include converseen, cuneiform-linux, inkscape, k3d, kcm-grub2, kxstitch, performous, perl-Image-SubImageFind, pfstools, pstoedit, pythonmagick, synfig, vdr-plugin-skinelchi, and vdr-plugin-skinenigmang.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0257.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18598, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/432, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/25/3, http://git.imagemagick.org/repos/ImageMagick/blob/ImageMagick-6/ChangeLog, https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3591

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: imagemagick

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/imagemagick?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6.9.5.2-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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