Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201411-12
=========================================
Severity: Low
Date    : 2014-11-13
CVE-ID  : CVE-2014-8716
Package : imagemagick
Type    : denial of service
Remote  : No
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE-2014

Summary
======
The package imagemagick before version 6.8.9.10-1 is vulnerable to
denial of service.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 6.8.9.10-1.

# pacman -Syu "imagemagick>=6.8.9.10-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 6.8.9.10.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
Converting some specially crafted jpeg with convert could lead to a dos.

Impact
=====
An attacker capable of submitting a specially crafted jpeg passed to the
convert command would be able to cause a crash resulting from an
out-of-bound read.

References
=========
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8716
;t=26456
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/569

ArchLinux: 201411-12: imagemagick: denial of service

November 13, 2014

Summary

Converting some specially crafted jpeg with convert could lead to a dos.

Resolution

Upgrade to 6.8.9.10-1. # pacman -Syu "imagemagick>=6.8.9.10-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 6.8.9.10.

References

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8716 ;t=26456 https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/569

Severity
Package : imagemagick
Type : denial of service
Remote : No
Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE-2014

Workaround

None.

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