Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-752
Advisory Release Date: 2016-10-12 17:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-10-12 17:00 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
A possible heap overflow was discovered in the EscapeParenthesis() function (CVE-2016-7447).
Various issues were found in the processing of SVG files in GraphicsMagick (CVE-2016-7446).
The TIFF reader had a bug pertaining to use of TIFFGetField() when a 'count' value is returned. The bug caused a heap read overflow (due to using strlcpy() to copy a possibly unterminated string) which could allow an untrusted file to crash the software (CVE-2016-7449).
The Utah RLE reader did not validate that header information was reasonable given the file size and so it could cause huge memory allocations and/or consume huge amounts of CPU, causing a denial of service (CVE-2016-7448)
Affected Packages:
GraphicsMagick
Issue Correction:
Run yum update GraphicsMagick to update your system.
i686:
GraphicsMagick-c++-devel-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.i686
GraphicsMagick-devel-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.i686
GraphicsMagick-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.i686
GraphicsMagick-c++-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.i686
GraphicsMagick-perl-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.i686
GraphicsMagick-debuginfo-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.i686
noarch:
GraphicsMagick-doc-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.noarch
src:
GraphicsMagick-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.src
x86_64:
GraphicsMagick-c++-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
GraphicsMagick-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
GraphicsMagick-perl-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
GraphicsMagick-c++-devel-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
GraphicsMagick-devel-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.x86_64
GraphicsMagick-debuginfo-1.3.25-1.9.amzn1.x86_64