Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.8.9.9-5+deb8u16


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-IMAGEMAGICK-402455
  • published 4 Aug 2017
  • disclosed 4 Aug 2017

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.

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadMPCImage in coders/mpc.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.