[Secure-testing-team] Bug#887158: graphicsmagick: CVE-2018-5685: Infinite Loop in ReadBMPImage

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: graphicsmagick
Version: 1.3.27-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/541/

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for graphicsmagick.

CVE-2018-5685[0]:
| In GraphicsMagick 1.3.27, there is an infinite loop and application
| hang in the ReadBMPImage function (coders/bmp.c). Remote attackers
| could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via an
| image file with a crafted bit-field mask value.

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-2018-5685
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5685
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/541/
[2] http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/52a91ddb1aa6

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore