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Debian: CVE-2017-14989: imagemagick -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-14989: imagemagick -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/02/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/18/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

A use-after-free in RenderFreetype in MagickCore/annotate.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-4 Q16 allows attackers to crash the application via a crafted font file, because the FT_Done_Glyph function (from FreeType 2) is called at an incorrect place in the ImageMagick code.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-imagemagick

References

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