[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#891291: imagemagick: CVE-2018-7443

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/999

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for imagemagick.

CVE-2018-7443[0]:
| The ReadTIFFImage function in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-23 Q16
| does not properly validate the amount of image data in a file, which
| allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory allocation
| failure in the AcquireMagickMemory function in MagickCore/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-2018-7443
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7443
[1] https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/999

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore