Resource Exhaustion Affecting emacs package, versions <1:24.3-23.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.18% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-EMACS-2162799
  • 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 emacs to version 1:24.3-23.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs package and not the emacs 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.