ImageMagick vulnerabilities
Summary
It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images when using the wavelet-denoise operator. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a heap buffer over-read, resulting in information disclosure. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-27798) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain DJVU images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a heap buffer over-read, resulting in information disclosure. (CVE-2026-27799) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain MNG images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a stack buffer overflow, resulting in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2026-28690) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain JBIG images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a pointer dereference error, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-28691) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain MAT images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a heap buffer over-read, resulting in information disclosure. (CVE-2026-28692) It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain DIB images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger an integer overflow, resulting in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2026-28693) Affected Ubuntu releases: 24.04, 22.04, 20.04, 18.04, 16.04, 14.04. CVEs: CVE-2026-28691, CVE-2026-27798, CVE-2026-28692, CVE-2026-27799, CVE-2026-28693, CVE-2026-28690.
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Ubuntu 20.04
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 16.04
- Ubuntu 14.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 4 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 4 hours ago·verify at source
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