imagick causes php crash due to *** Error in `php': double free or corruption (out): 0x0000559cb19d3db0 *** Magick: abort due to signal 6 (SIGABRT) "Abort"...

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

The installation of `php-imagick` caused the following crash in the ownCloud upgrade tool `occ`, i.e. while running `sudo -u www-data php occ upgrade`:

    *** Error in `php': double free or corruption (out): 0x0000559cb19d3db0 ***
    Magick: abort due to signal 6 (SIGABRT) "Abort"...

Removal of `php-imagick` causes the script to finish successfully.

I recall a similar bug in magick or another project I experienced before and which has been fixed, but I don't seem to find it in my launchpad.net account or via google.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: php-imagick (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 23 16:33:39 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-20 (916 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen.xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: php-imagick
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-22 (1 days ago)

[JanBrinkmann (jbrinkmann)]

I can confírm this behaviour

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcos Brasil (marcosbrasil)]

I can confirme the issue on ubuntu 18.04 and PHP 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.4 (cli) (built: Apr 8 2020 15:45:57) ( NTS ).

[killerbee (eth)]

Confirmed on ubuntu 18.04
PHP
PHP 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 (cli) (built: Feb 11 2020 15:55:52) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.3, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies

while trying to upgrade to nextcloud 18.0.6
After uninstallinging, upgrade to 18.0.6 works as expected.
Reinstalling php-imagick afterwards again makes nextcloud server unresponsive (Empty page returned)
So currently no workaround known

[killerbee (eth)]

upgrading to php7.4 via
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

resolves the problem