Resource Exhaustion Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.94% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-IMAGEMAGICK-345879
  • published9 May 2019
  • disclosed9 May 2019

Introduced: 9 May 2019

CVE-2017-12806  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable imagemagick to version 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-6, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function format8BIM, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.