Bug 1561744 – CVE-2017-18254 ImageMagick: memory leak in WriteGIFImage function in coders/gif.c

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Bug 1561744 - (CVE-2017-18254) CVE-2017-18254 ImageMagick: memory leak in WriteGIFImage function in coders/gif.c

Summary:	CVE-2017-18254 ImageMagick: memory leak in WriteGIFImage function in coders/g...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-18254

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

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1561740 1561745 1579725 1579726
Blocks:	1561747
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Reported:	2018-03-28 15:37 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-05-22 11:26 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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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.
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-03-28 15:37:06 EDT

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 15:40:41 EDT

Created ImageMagick tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1561740]

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