Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package graphicsmagick  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-GRAPHICSMAGICK-620909
  • published10 Jun 2016
  • disclosed10 Jun 2016

Introduced: 10 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-5118  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream graphicsmagick package and not the graphicsmagick package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The OpenBlob function in blob.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 and ImageMagick allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a | (pipe) character at the start of a filename.

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