USN-8739-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

USN-8739-1: ImageMagick vulnerabilities

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/rss.xml / Wed, 09/09/2026 - 04:31
It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-56366, CVE-2026-56368, CVE-2026-56371, CVE-2026-56373) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-56370) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-56378) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-56379) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled memory allocation in certain operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-61465) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-61857) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2026-61863, CVE-2026-61864, CVE-2026-61865, CVE-2026-61870) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-61866) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images on 32-bit systems. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-62946)

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