[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#878546: imagemagick: CVE-2017-14400

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.8.9.9-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/746

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-14400[0]:
| In ImageMagick 7.0.7-1 Q16, the PersistPixelCache function in
| magick/cache.c mishandles the pixel cache nexus, which allows remote
| attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference in the
| function GetVirtualPixels in MagickCore/cache.c) 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-2017-14400
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14400
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/746

Regards,
Salvatore