Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.17% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-IMAGEMAGICK-402018
  • published4 Aug 2017
  • disclosed4 Aug 2017

Introduced: 4 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12435  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 imagemagick to version 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u10 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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