[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#863834: imagemagick: CVE-2017-9262: Memory leak in the ReadJNGImage function

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.8.9.9-5
Severity: normal
Tags: security patch upstream fixed-upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/475

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-9262[0]:
| In ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 Q16, the ReadJNGImage function in coders/png.c
| allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak) 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-2017-9262
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9262
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/475

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore