[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#876097: imagemagick: CVE-2017-14224: Heap buffer overflow in WritePCXImage

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security patch
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/733

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-14224[0]:
| A heap-based buffer overflow in WritePCXImage in coders/pcx.c in
| ImageMagick 7.0.6-8 Q16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
| service or code execution 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-2017-14224
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14224
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/733

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore