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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:03:08 -0700
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com>
To: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@...ple.dallas.tx.us>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ImageMagick identify "d:" hangs
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
<bfriesen@...ple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
>>
>>
>> (/etc/passwd) /dumpname load 256 string filenameforall
>> $ convert test.gif png:test.png
>> <creates a file called test.png containing first line of /etc/passwd>
>>
>> Also seems to work with gm convert.
>
>
> It is good that you did not single out just one using program.
>
> This issue seems to afflict any program which invokes Ghostscript in general
> and not just *Magick. However, 'convert' does offer to write a rendered
> result to an output file.
>
I think I see the problem, ghostscript broke -dSAFER then they fixed
it later but didn't allocate a CVE, so the distros never updated.
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=ae930279498a5961fcf5d70ffe86864883609cbc
I think it should be fixed in gs 9.10 or later (Debian appears to be
on 9.06), but you can still enumerate filenames (just not the
content).
Tavis
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