[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#868950: imagemagick: CVE-2017-11446

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.8.9.9-5
Severity: important
Tags: patch upstream security
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/537

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-11446[0]:
| The ReadPESImage function in coders\pes.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 has an
| infinite loop vulnerability that can cause CPU exhaustion via a crafted
| PES 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-2017-11446
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11446
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/537

Regards,
Salvatore