Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-14
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.33% (86th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-IMAGEMAGICK-521618
- published 22 Jul 2017
- disclosed 22 Jul 2017
Introduced: 22 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-11523 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
imagemagick
to version 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-14 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.
The ReadTXTImage function in coders/txt.c in ImageMagick through 6.9.9-0 and 7.x through 7.0.6-1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted file, because the end-of-file condition is not considered.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11523
- https://bugs.debian.org/869210
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4019
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/83e0f8ffd7eeb7661b0ff83257da23d24ca7f078
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a8f9c2aabed37cd6a728532d1aed13ae0f3dfd78
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/591