[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#878547: imagemagick: CVE-2017-14739

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.8.9.9-5
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/780

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-14739[0]:
| The AcquireResampleFilterThreadSet function in
| magick/resample-private.h in ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 mishandles failed
| memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
| service (NULL Pointer Dereference in DistortImage in
| MagickCore/distort.c, and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

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-2017-14739
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14739
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/780

Regards,
Salvatore