[Secure-testing-team] Bug#878578: imagemagick: CVE-2017-15277

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/592

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-15277[0]:
| ReadGIFImage in coders/gif.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 and GraphicsMagick
| 1.3.26 leaves the palette uninitialized when processing a GIF file that
| has neither a global nor local palette. If the affected product is used
| as a library loaded into a process that operates on interesting data,
| this data sometimes can be leaked via the uninitialized palette.

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-2017-15277
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-15277
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/592

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore