usn-5251-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2022-07-27 10:08
Modified
2026-06-29 10:52
Summary
gegl vulnerability
Details
It was discovered that GEGL incorrectly filtered and escaped file path input data when using the C system() function for execution of the ImageMagick convert command. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.
References
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
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"0.3.20-3",
"0.3.24-1",
"0.3.28-3",
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{
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{
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"0.4.18-1ubuntu1",
"0.4.18-2",
"0.4.18-2build1",
"0.4.22-1",
"0.4.22-3"
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}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "It was discovered that GEGL incorrectly filtered and escaped file path input\ndata when using the C system() function for execution of the ImageMagick convert\ncommand. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.\n",
"id": "USN-5251-1",
"modified": "2026-06-29T10:52:53Z",
"published": "2022-07-27T10:08:37Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5251-1"
},
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"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-45463"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"summary": "gegl vulnerability",
"upstream": [
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]
}
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