Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions <1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.34% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GRAPHICSMAGICK-352392
  • published5 Mar 2018
  • disclosed5 Mar 2018

Introduced: 5 Mar 2018

CVE-2017-18219  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 graphicsmagick to version 1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream graphicsmagick package and not the graphicsmagick package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation.