Resource Exhaustion Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u16


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-IMAGEMAGICK-401167
  • published3 Jan 2018
  • disclosed3 Jan 2018

Introduced: 3 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-1000476  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 imagemagick to version 8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u16 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a CPU exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadDDSInfo in coders/dds.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.