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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : ImageMagick vulnerabilities (USN-7756-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 265697

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7756-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that ImageMagick did not properly handle memory when performing magnified size calculations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ImageMagick to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-55154)

 Woojin Park, Hojun Lee, Youngin Won, and Siyeon Han discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled creating thumbnail images for certain dimensions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ImageMagick to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
 (CVE-2025-55212)

 Lumina Mescuwa discovered that ImageMagick did not properly handle cloning splay trees in the MagickCore library. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause sanitized builds of ImageMagick to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2025-55160)

 Lumina Mescuwa discovered that ImageMagick did not properly handle memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ImageMagick to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-57807)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7756-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 265697

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7756-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/22/2025

Updated: 9/22/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-57807

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6-arch-config, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-7-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6-headers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-7t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-6.q16, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-7-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-6.q16hdri, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore5-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-7t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-7, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-6-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-5v5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimage-magick-q16-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16-9t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16hdri-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimage-magick-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libimage-magick-q16hdri-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-7t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-9t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6.q16hdri-8, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick-6-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b-6-headers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickwand-6.q16-7t64, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6-headers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:imagemagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagickcore-6.q16-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:perlmagick, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmagick%2b%2b5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-55154, CVE-2025-55160, CVE-2025-55212, CVE-2025-57807

IAVB: 2025-B-0145

USN: 7756-1