Ubuntu
imagemagick package

ImageMagick convert SVG core dump

Bug #1808070 reported by Matpen on 2018-12-12

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	imagemagick (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I am experiencing the following bizarre crash when attempting to convert SVG images:

# download a sample image
wget https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Firefox_Logo%2C_2017.svg
# re-download the same image with a different name
wget https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Firefox_Logo%2C_2017.svg -O firefox.svg
# even copy the original image to a different name
cp Firefox_Logo,_2017.svg firefox2.svg

# no convert the images (recall they are identical)
convert Firefox_Logo,_2017.svg firefox.png # works
convert firefox.svg firefox.png # Aborted (core dumped)
convert firefox2.svg firefox.png # Aborted (core dumped)

The problem can be reproduced at least on two different laptops configured similarly (but based on different hardware), so it is not random and not specific to one system.

The system specs are as follows:

me@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS"

me@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux matteo-laptop 4.4.0-139-generic #165-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 24 10:58:50 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

me@ubuntu:~$ convert -version # installed from repo
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 x86_64 2018-09-28 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2014 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: DPC Modules OpenMP
Delegates: bzlib cairo djvu fftw fontconfig freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png rsvg tiff wmf x xml zlib

I could solve the problem by installing ImageMagick from source as described here
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php

This bug seems related, although it has slightly different symptoms:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/+bug/1796815

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