[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#878527: imagemagick: CVE-2017-14607

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/765

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-14607[0]:
| In ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16, an out of bounds read flaw related to
| ReadTIFFImage has been reported in coders/tiff.c. An attacker could
| possibly exploit this flaw to disclose potentially sensitive memory or
| cause an application crash.

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-2017-14607
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14607
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/765

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore