Bug 1484875 (CVE-2017-12672)

Summary: CVE-2017-12672 ImageMagick: Memory leak in the function ReadMATImage
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-08-24 13:00:27 UTC
In ImageMagick 7.0.6-3, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadMATImage in coders/mat.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/617

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/f9b992dd2a4caab1dace919f9190b2c173a4e18c