Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.95% (83rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-IMAGEMAGICK-524929
- published 1 Sep 2017
- disclosed 1 Sep 2017
Introduced: 1 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-12691 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
imagemagick
to version 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3 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 ReadOneLayer function in coders/xcf.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12691
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/656
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-12691
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/