Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1282-1 graphicsmagick -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 14 Feb 2018
- Affected Packages:
- graphicsmagick
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-6799.
- More information:
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A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in graphicsmagick, a collection of image processing tools and associated libraries.
A specially crafted file can be used to produce a denial of service (heap overwrite) or possible other unspecified impact by exploiting a defect related to unused pixel staging area in the AcquireCacheNexus function in magick/pixel_cache.c.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.16-1.1+deb7u18.We recommend that you upgrade your graphicsmagick packages.
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