Bug 1398189 – CVE-2016-9559 ImageMagick: Null pointer dereference in tiff.c

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Bug 1398189 - (CVE-2016-9559) CVE-2016-9559 ImageMagick: Null pointer dereference in tiff.c

Summary:	CVE-2016-9559 ImageMagick: Null pointer dereference in tiff.c

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-9559

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1540256 1413898 1540257
Blocks:	1381146
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Reported:	2016-11-24 04:38 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-01-30 10:58 EST (History)
CC List:	16 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2017-11-21 00:25:28 EST
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-24 04:38:00 EST

A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in ImageMagick in tiff.c, triggered by crafted image being opened.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/b61d35eaccc0a7ddeff8a1c3abfcd0a43ccf210b

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/472

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-01-17 04:19:50 EST

Created ImageMagick tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1413891]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-01-17 04:31:40 EST

Created ImageMagick tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1413898]

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-01-20 04:42:51 EST

ImageMagick code uses the libtiff library to query tag data via TIFFGetField(), but the return from the function, could be null, which is not checked. This later causes null pointer deref when the value is being used.

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