[Secure-testing-team] Bug#872481: imagemagick: CVE-2017-12433

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/548

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-12433[0]:
| In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the
| function ReadPESImage in coders/pes.c, which allows attackers to cause
| a denial of service, related to ResizeMagickMemory in memory.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-2017-12433
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12433
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/548

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)