Bug 1378776 (CVE-2016-7539)

Summary: CVE-2016-7539 ImageMagick: potential DOS by not releasing memory
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abhgupta, dmcphers, ethan, jhorak, jialiu, jokerman, kseifried, lmeyer, mmccomas, nmurray, pahan, tiwillia
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Bug Depends On: 1378790    
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-09-23 08:58:24 UTC 
Bug report(s):

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28946
https://bugs.debian.org/833101

Upstream patch(es):

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4e81ce8b07219c69a9aeccb0f7f7b927ca6db74c

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/590
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-09-23 09:37:02 UTC 
Created ImageMagick tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1378790]
Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2016-09-27 16:42:32 UTC 
Errors within the cache handling could lead to performance issues or temporary files not being removed correctly. This could result in a higher usage of resources than necessary, but ultimately is not that much of an issue.