Improper Input Validation Affecting emacs-common package, versions <1:24.3-23.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.93% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EMACSCOMMON-1525619
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed27 Aug 2018

Introduced: 27 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-16644  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 emacs-common to version 1:24.3-23.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:1180.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-common package and not the emacs-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a missing check for length in the functions ReadDCMImage of coders/dcm.c and ReadPICTImage of coders/pict.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image.