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Article ID : 1000758.1
Article Type : Sun Alerts (SURE)
Last reviewed : 2010-01-19
Audience : PUBLIC
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Security Vulnerabilities in ImageMagick(1) May Allow a Remote Unprivileged User to Execute Arbitrary Code



Category
Security

Release Phase
Resolved

Bug Id
5103546

Date of Resolved Release
20-SEP-2004

Impact

Due to multiple vulnerabilities in ImageMagick(1), a remote unprivileged user may be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user if that local user uses one of the ImageMagick(1) tools to load a bitmap (.bmp) format image file or an Audio Video Interleave (AVI) movie supplied by an untrusted remote user.

Note: ImageMagick(1) provides a suite of command-line utilities for creating, converting, editing, and displaying images.

These issues are described in the following document:


Contributing Factors

These issues can occur in the following releases:

Linux Platform

  • Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) 2003 without the updated RPMs (patch-9346)
  • Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 2 without the updated RPMs (patch-9346)

Note: JDS for Solaris is not impacted by these issues.

The described issues only occur with ImageMagick versions ImageMagick-5.4.7-269 or earlier.

To determine the release of JDS for Linux installed on a system, the following command can be run:

    % cat /etc/sun-release
Sun Java Desktop System, Release 2 -build 10b (GA)
Assembled 30 March 2004

To determine the version of ImageMagick, the following command can be run:

    % rpm -qf /usr/bin/animate
ImageMagick-5.4.7-269

Symptoms

There are no reliable symptoms that would indicate the described issues have been exploited.


Workaround

There is no workaround. Please see the "Resolution" section below.


Resolution

These issues are addressed in the following releases:

Linux Platform

  • Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) 2003 with the updated RPMs (patch-9346)
  • Sun Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 2 with the updated RPMs (patch-9346)

To download and install the updated RPMs from the update servers select the following from the launch bar:

    Launch >> Applications >> System Tools >> Online Update

For more information on obtaining updates see:



Modification History

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