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Debian 7: DLA-1159-1 Important Security Alert for Graphicsmagick Issues

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Multiple significant security updates resolve heap overflow and information leak issues in Graphicsmagick for Debian 7.
Maor Shwartz, Jeremy Heng and Terry Chia discovered two security vulnerabilities in Graphicsmagick, a collection of image processing tool s

Summary

CVE-2017-16352
Graphicsmagick was vulnerable to a heap-based buffer
overflow vulnerability found in the "Display visual image directory"
feature of the DescribeImage() function of the magick/describe.c
file. One possible way to trigger the vulnerability is to run the
identify command on a specially crafted MIFF format file with the
verbose flag.

CVE-2017-16353
Graphicsmagick was vulnerable to a memory information disclosure
vulnerability found in the DescribeImage function of the
magick/describe.c file, because of a heap-based buffer over-read. The
portion of the code containing the vulnerability is responsible for
printing the IPTC Profile information contained in the image. This
vulnerability can be triggered with a specially crafted MIFF file.
There is an out-of-bounds buffer dereference because certain
increments are never checked.

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
1.3.16-1.1+deb7u13.

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Package: graphicsmagick
Version: 1.3.16-1.1+deb7u13
CVE ID: CVE-2017-16352 CVE-2017-16353

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