[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#872498: imagemagick: CVE-2017-12418

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
Severity: normal
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/643

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-12418[0]:
| ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has memory leaks in the parse8BIMW and format8BIM
| functions in coders/meta.c, related to the WriteImage function in
| MagickCore/constitute.c.

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-2017-12418
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12418
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/643

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore