[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#875339: imagemagick: CVE-2017-12692

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11
Severity: important
Tags: patch upstream security
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/653

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2017-12692[0]:
| The ReadVIFFImage function in coders/viff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-6
| allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
| consumption) via a crafted VIFF 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-2017-12692
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12692
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/653
[2] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/5919dc606bc1d6022d3d2d205a91fdbe98de9e15

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore