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High ALAS2-2021-1596 1 CVE

Important: ImageMagick security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 17, 2021 · Updated Feb 19, 2021

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-29599: A flaw was found in ImageMagick. The -authenticate option is mishandled allowing user-controlled password set for a PDF file to possibly inject additional shell commands via coders/pdf.c. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. 1907456: CVE-2020-29599 ImageMagick: Shell injection via PDF password could result in arbitrary code execution

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 ImageMagick 0:6.9.10.68-5.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 ImageMagick-c++ 0:6.9.10.68-5.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 ImageMagick-c++-devel 0:6.9.10.68-5.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 ImageMagick-debuginfo 0:6.9.10.68-5.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 ImageMagick-devel 0:6.9.10.68-5.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 ImageMagick-doc 0:6.9.10.68-5.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 ImageMagick-perl 0:6.9.10.68-5.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-29599.html