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Re: ImageMagick: CVE-2017-9098: use of uninitialized memory in RLE decoder


From: Ian Zimmerman <itz () primate net>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 08:26:36 -0700

On 2017-05-20 09:26, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:

Chris Evans discovered that ImageMagick uses unitialized memory in the
RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from
process memory space. There is missing initialization in the
ReadRLEImage function.

Original article at:

https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2017/05/bleed-continues-18-byte-file-14k-bounty.html

It was good to see the discussion of how GraphicsMagick was affected, or
not.  I would love to see that in all *Magick weakness reports.

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