mitigating CVE-2018–16323

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dognose
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mitigating CVE-2018–16323

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I'm looking for the IM response to CVE-2018–16323.

Memory leak in XBM images.

I've tried the POC images, but nothing is apparently displayed. Wondering how to to best mitigate.. and check for proper mitigation.

ref: https://medium.com/@ilja.bv/yet-another ... 0f048a1e12
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Re: mitigating CVE-2018–16323

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This was apparently fixed last July according to the changelog:

2018-07-24 7.0.8-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
XBM coder leaves the hex image data uninitialized if hex value of the pixel is negative.

and

2018-07-24 6.9.10-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
XBM coder leaves the hex image data uninitialized if hex value of the pixel is negative.


See
https://imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php
https://legacy.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php
dognose
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Re: mitigating CVE-2018–16323

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Interesting. I'm not sure why it's in the news then. Maybe it's because people have old versions installed still?

Anyway, I'll be banning that format as input.

image/x-xbitmap ASCII C program text
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