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...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-17883
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: 1529375 1529376
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-12-27 20:41 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2020-03-25 09:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:35:39 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2017-12-27 20:41:12 UTC 
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 20:41:35 UTC 
Created ImageMagick tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1529376]
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2020-03-25 09:24:59 UTC 
The support for pgx coder was added in version 6.9.8-1.
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