Bug 1529374 – CVE-2017-17883 ImageMagick: memory leak in the function ReadPGXImage in coders/pgx.c

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Bug 1529374 - (CVE-2017-17883) CVE-2017-17883 ImageMagick: memory leak in the function ReadPGXImage in coders/pgx.c

Summary:	CVE-2017-17883 ImageMagick: memory leak in the function ReadPGXImage in coder...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-17883

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

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Depends On:	1529375 1529376
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Reported:	2017-12-27 15:41 EST by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2017-12-27 16:05 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Laura Pardo 2017-12-27 15:41:12 EST

A flaw was found in ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability in the function ReadPGXImage in coders/pgx.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PGX image file.

[REFERENCES]
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-17883 
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17883

[UPSTREAM BUG]
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/877

[TESTCASE]
https://github.com/henices/pocs/raw/master/ReadPGXImage-memory-leaks

[UPSTREAM PATCH]
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/2a1ec7d97f356e9fb6dbc328da17d93ab7a8167c

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2017-12-27 15:41:35 EST

Created ImageMagick tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1529376]

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