Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.34% (72nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-IMAGEMAGICK-529326
- published 7 Oct 2018
- disclosed 7 Oct 2018
Introduced: 7 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-18024 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
imagemagick
to version 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1 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 7.0.8-13 Q16, there is an infinite loop in the ReadBMPImage function of the coders/bmp.c file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted bmp file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-18024
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18024
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1337
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-18024
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/