[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#941671: imagemagick: CVE-2019-15140

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1554

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2019-15140[0]:
| coders/mat.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-43 Q16 allows remote attackers to
| cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) or
| possibly have unspecified other impact by crafting a Matlab image file
| that is mishandled in ReadImage in MagickCore/constitute.c.


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-2019-15140
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15140
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1554

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore