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High 3 exploited CVEs USN-2990-1 6 CVEs

imagemagick vulnerabilities

Published Jun 2, 2016 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Nikolay Ermishkin and Stewie discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly
sanitized untrusted input. A remote attacker could use these issues to
execute arbitrary code. These issues are known as "ImageTragick". This
update disables problematic coders via the /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
configuration file. In certain environments the coders may need to be
manually re-enabled after making sure that ImageMagick does not process
untrusted input. (CVE-2016-3714, CVE-2016-3715, CVE-2016-3716,
CVE-2016-3717, CVE-2016-3718)

Bob Friesenhahn discovered that ImageMagick allowed injecting commands via
an image file or filename. A remote attacker could use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5118)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS imagemagick 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS imagemagick 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.1

Vulnerabilities 6

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3714
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3715
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3716
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3717
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3718
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5118