Bug 1195271 (CVE-2015-8903) - CVE-2015-8903 ImageMagick: denial of service flaw in VICAR file processing
Summary: CVE-2015-8903 ImageMagick: denial of service flaw in VICAR file processing
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2015-8903
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1195274
Blocks: 1195276
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-23 13:59 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-09-22 12:49:33 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-02-23 13:59:33 UTC 
A denial of service flaw (infinite loop) was found in the way ImageMagick processed certain VICAR files:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/608

Upstream issue, including a reproducer:

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26933

A patch is not yet available as noted in comment 2 of the above-linked issue.
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-02-23 14:01:24 UTC 
Created ImageMagick tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1195274]
Comment 2 Jodie Cunningham 2015-03-03 18:33:22 UTC 
A patch should be available for IM6 in http://trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/17856
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-03-15 10:53:19 UTC 
ImageMagick-6.8.8.10-9.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2016-06-07 08:19:56 UTC 
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/481
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