Resource Exhaustion Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions <1.3.26-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE313-GRAPHICSMAGICK-1067651
  • published2 Feb 2021
  • disclosed3 Jul 2017

Introduced: 3 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-10799  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.13 graphicsmagick to version 1.3.26-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream graphicsmagick package and not the graphicsmagick package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.13 relevant fixed versions and status.

When GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 processes a DPX image (with metadata indicating a large width) in coders/dpx.c, a denial of service (OOM) can occur in ReadDPXImage().