Bug 626174 (CVE-2016-7539)

Summary:	<media-gfx/imagemagick-6.9.4.1: memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) <chrisadr>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	graphics+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7539
Whiteboard:	B3 [ebuild]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-07-25 21:37:59 UTC

From URL:

Description
Memory leak in AcquireVirtualMemory in ImageMagick before 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors.

References:

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=28946
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/2	
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833101
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378776
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/4e81ce8b07219c69a9aeccb0f7f7b927ca6db74c

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-07-25 22:34:51 UTC

Fixed by upstream since 6.9.4.0. Landed in Gentoo via bf1360d003a494888c306a9b8ae00452861d13f9 in 6.9.4.1. Current stable version in Gentoo repository is 6.9.7.4. All done.