Today, June 2, 2016, Canonical published an Ubuntu Security Notice to inform the community about an important security update to the ImageMagick packages for all supported Ubuntu OSes.
According to Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2990-1, there are two ImageMagick vulnerabilities affecting the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating systems, as well as all of their derivatives.
ImageMagick is an open-source image manipulation library that contains a set of commands which users can use to resize, crop, edit, compose, or convert various types of images. However, ImageMagick can also be easily integrated into various imaged editor programs.
Today’s update is very important as it patched the infamous “ImageTragick” exploit discovered a month ago by Nikolay Ermishkin and Stewie in the upstream ImageMagick… (read more)
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