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.

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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)

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