[Secure-testing-team] Bug#874724: graphicsmagick: CVE-2017-14165

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: graphicsmagick
Version: 1.3.26-1
Severity: normal
Tags: security patch upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/442/

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for graphicsmagick.

CVE-2017-14165[0]:
| The ReadSUNImage function in coders/sun.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has
| an issue where memory allocation is excessive because it depends only
| on a length field in a header. This may lead to remote denial of
| service in the MagickMalloc function in magick/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-2017-14165
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14165
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/442/
[2] http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/493da54370aa

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore