Debian DSA-3863-1 : imagemagick - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 100433

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

This update fixes several vulnerabilities in imagemagick: Various memory handling problems and cases of missing or incomplete input sanitising may result in denial of service, memory disclosure or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed RLE, ART, JNG, DDS, BMP, ICO, EPT, SUN, MTV, PICT, XWD, PCD, SFW, MAT, EXR, DCM, MNG, PCX or SVG files are processed.

Solution

Upgrade the imagemagick packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u9.

For the upcoming stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-8.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100433

File Name: debian_DSA-3863.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/26/2017

Updated: 12/17/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9098

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:imagemagick

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7606, CVE-2017-7619, CVE-2017-7941, CVE-2017-7943, CVE-2017-8343, CVE-2017-8344, CVE-2017-8345, CVE-2017-8346, CVE-2017-8347, CVE-2017-8348, CVE-2017-8349, CVE-2017-8350, CVE-2017-8351, CVE-2017-8352, CVE-2017-8353, CVE-2017-8354, CVE-2017-8355, CVE-2017-8356, CVE-2017-8357, CVE-2017-8765, CVE-2017-8830, CVE-2017-9098, CVE-2017-9141, CVE-2017-9142, CVE-2017-9143, CVE-2017-9144

DSA: 3863

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