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Re: Requesting advice on ImageMagick popen() filename vulnerability (CVE


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: Requesting advice on ImageMagick popen() filename vulnerability (CVE-2016-5118)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 13:40:02 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01)

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 01:02:05PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> CVE-2016-5118 is a bug in GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick whereby
> one can get shell execution by passing the libraries a file whose name
> begins with the pipe character, |.
> 
> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/433
> 
> We (crudely) fixed this for GraphicsMagick in d8862778c1b.
> 
> Now I see that ImageMagick has suggested a similar interim fix on their
> forums:
> https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29803#p134039
> 
> Also, they have begun committing mitigations to their Git repository:
> http://git.imagemagick.org/repos/ImageMagick/commit/ca430ff77794980941ff0fa0d2fc463b50c2c6b7
> 
> I plan to fix this in our package using the "crude" option until
> ImageMagick releases a new version, which seems to be happening every
> few days.

Done, as e88eb07110a.



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