[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#878545: imagemagick: CVE-2017-14505

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.8.9.9-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/716

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-14505[0]:
| DrawGetStrokeDashArray in wand/drawing-wand.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-1
| mishandles certain NULL arrays, which allows attackers to perform
| Denial of Service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash in
| AcquireQuantumMemory within MagickCore/memory.c) by providing a crafted
| Image File as input.

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-2017-14505
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14505
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/716

Regards,
Salvatore