[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#904713: imagemagick: CVE-2018-14551: use of uninitialized variable

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.10.2+dfsg-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1221

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2018-14551[0]:
| The ReadMATImageV4 function in coders/mat.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-7 uses
| an uninitialized variable, leading to memory corruption.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14551
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14551
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1221
[2] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/db7a4be592328af06d776ce3bab24b8c6de5be20

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore