| Name | CVE-2016-7996 |
| Description | Heap-based buffer overflow in the WPG format reader in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 and earlier allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a colormap with a large number of entries. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-683-1, DSA-3746-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| graphicsmagick (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.3.20-3+deb8u14 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1.3.30+hg15796-1~deb9u5 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.3.30+hg15796-1~deb9u7 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.4+really1.3.35-1~deb10u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1.4+really1.3.36+hg16481-2+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.4+really1.3.40-4 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.4+really1.3.45-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
The patch addressing CVE-2016-7996 applied is in 1.3.25-4, but in
the experimental upload 1.3.20-4 and later uploaded to unstable as
1.3.21-2 the build is done with --with-quantum-depth=16 switching
away from the default with QuantumDepth=8
patch for this and CVE-2016-7997 at: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/07/4