ubuntu · CVE-2016-5118

Quick triage

Priority: medium Published: 2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:04:46 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5118 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (graphicsmagick, imagemagick), 20 status rows across 10 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 11, ignored 5, needs-triage 2, not-affected 2.

Description:

The OpenBlob function in blob.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 and ImageMagick allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a | (pipe) character at the start of a filename.

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