Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting imagemagick6 package, versions <6.9.10.37-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.21% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE310-IMAGEMAGICK6-454740
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed6 Sept 2018

Introduced: 6 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16645  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.10 imagemagick6 to version 6.9.10.37-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick6 package and not the imagemagick6 package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of coders/dib.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.