[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#875352: imagemagick: CVE-2017-13768

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch security
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/706

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-13768[0]:
| Null Pointer Dereference in the IdentifyImage function in
| MagickCore/identify.c in ImageMagick through 7.0.6-10 allows an
| attacker to perform denial of service by sending a crafted image 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-2017-13768
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13768
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/706
[2] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/2c1b360d80e5f8f7c7108c0afedde64ab79318ff

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore