Resource Exhaustion Affecting autotrace-devel package, versions <0:0.31.1-38.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.18% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-AUTOTRACEDEVEL-2160319
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed27 Aug 2018

Introduced: 27 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-16645  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 autotrace-devel to version 0:0.31.1-38.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream autotrace-devel package and not the autotrace-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 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.