[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#878562: imagemagick: CVE-2017-14989

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.8.9.9-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/781

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-14989[0]:
| A use-after-free in RenderFreetype in MagickCore/annotate.c in
| ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16 allows attackers to crash the application via a
| crafted font file, because the FT_Done_Glyph function (from FreeType 2)
| is called at an incorrect place in the ImageMagick code.

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-2017-14989
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14989
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/781

Regards,
Salvatore