[Secure-testing-team] Bug#876487: imagemagick: CVE-2017-14684: memory leak in ResizeMagickMemory

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11
Severity: normal
Tags: security patch upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-14684[0]:
| In ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in
| the function ReadVIPSImage in coders/vips.c, which allows attackers to
| cause a denial of service (memory consumption in ResizeMagickMemory in
| MagickCore/memory.c) via a crafted 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-2017-14684
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14684
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/770

Beeing a memory leak issue, as per previous discussion, not as severe,
but still filling a bug to have a tracking within the BTS and mapping
to CVE and upstream issue.

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore