Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-13


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-IMAGEMAGICK-515942
  • published4 Aug 2017
  • disclosed4 Aug 2017

Introduced: 4 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12429  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 imagemagick to version 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-13 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadMIFFImage in coders/miff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.