[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#872609: imagemagick: CVE-2017-12674

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream patch security
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/604

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-12674[0]:
| In ImageMagick 7.0.6-2, a CPU exhaustion vulnerability was found in the
| function ReadPDBImage in coders/pdb.c, which allows attackers to cause
| a denial of service.

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-2017-12674
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12674
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/604

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore