[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#867778: imagemagick: CVE-2017-9500: assertion failed in ResetImageProfileIterator

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.8.9.9-5
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream fixed-upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/500

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-9500[0]:
| In ImageMagick 7.0.5-8 Q16, an assertion failure was found in the
| function ResetImageProfileIterator, which allows attackers to cause a
| denial of service via a crafted file.

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-2017-9500
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9500
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/500
[2] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/837085e7725f6eb591eb019e299c1ddcf34b9a79

Regards,
Salvatore