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


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-EMACSNOX-2161654
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed30 Sept 2017

Introduced: 30 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-18251  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 emacs-nox to version 1:24.3-23.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-nox package and not the emacs-nox package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. A memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadPCDImage in coders/pcd.c, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.