Bug 1513940 (CVE-2017-16546) - CVE-2017-16546 ImageMagick: Invalid memory allocation in the ReadWPGImage function
Summary: CVE-2017-16546 ImageMagick: Invalid memory allocation in the ReadWPGImage fun...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-16546
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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Reported: 2017-11-16 10:29 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-11-16 10:30:35 UTC

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-11-16 10:29:28 UTC 
The ReadWPGImage function in coders/wpg.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-9 does not properly validate the colormap index in a WPG palette, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (use of uninitialized data or invalid memory allocation).

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/851

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/e04cf3e9524f50ca336253513d977224e083b816
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-11-16 10:30:41 UTC 
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Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
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