NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions <1.3.24-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.87% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-GRAPHICSMAGICK-5681447
  • published3 Feb 2017
  • disclosed3 Feb 2017

Introduced: 3 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-2318  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 graphicsmagick to version 1.3.24-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream graphicsmagick package and not the graphicsmagick package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

GraphicsMagick 1.3.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted SVG file, related to the (1) DrawImage function in magick/render.c, (2) SVGStartElement function in coders/svg.c, and (3) TraceArcPath function in magick/render.c.