[Secure-testing-team] Bug#878548: imagemagick: CVE-2017-14741

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.8.9.9-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/771

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-14741[0]:
| The ReadCAPTIONImage function in coders/caption.c in ImageMagick
| 7.0.7-3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite
| loop) via a crafted font 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-2017-14741
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14741
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/771

Regards,
Salvatore