Bug 1561744 (CVE-2017-18254)

Summary:	CVE-2017-18254 ImageMagick: memory leak in WriteGIFImage function in coders/gif.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jhorak, mike, pahan
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A memory leak vulnerability has been discovered in ImageMagick in the WriteGIFImage function of coders/gif.c file. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1561740, 1561745, 1579725, 1579726
Bug Blocks:	1561747

Description Laura Pardo 2018-03-28 19:37:06 UTC

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. A memory leak vulnerability was found in the function WriteGIFImage in coders/gif.c, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.


References:
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/808

Patches:
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/24d5699753170c141b46816284430516c2d48fed
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/53ea13989003cdb4955024f95b4a0158a2e871c6

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-03-28 19:40:41 UTC

Created ImageMagick tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1561740]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:31:32 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1180 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1180

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-03-31 22:32:11 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-18254