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Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 08:26:36 -0700
From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@...mate.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ImageMagick: CVE-2017-9098: use of uninitialized memory in RLE
 decoder

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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