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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions <1.3.27-r0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE315-GRAPHICSMAGICK-1928307
  • published2 Feb 2021
  • disclosed5 Mar 2018
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Introduced: 5 Mar 2018

CVE-2017-18219  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.15 graphicsmagick to version 1.3.27-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:3.15 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation.

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