Mageia alert MGASA-2014-0484 (graphicsmagick)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2014-0484: Updated graphicsmagick packages fix security vulnerability 
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Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:21:46 +0100
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MGASA-2014-0484 - Updated graphicsmagick packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 25 Nov 2014
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0484.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 3, 4
CVE: CVE-2014-8355

Description:
GraphicsMagick is vulnerable to an out of bounds read / heap Overflow in the
function ReadPCXImage in the file pcx.c. This can be exploited by a crafted
image file to cause a denial of service (CVE-2014-8355).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14546
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/1
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8355

SRPMS:
- 4/core/graphicsmagick-1.3.18-3.3.mga4
- 3/core/graphicsmagick-1.3.17-2.4.mga3