Resource Exhaustion Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions <1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.27% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GRAPHICSMAGICK-352428
  • published3 Jul 2017
  • disclosed3 Jul 2017

Introduced: 3 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-10799  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 graphicsmagick to version 1.3.18-1ubuntu3.1+esm2 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.

When GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 processes a DPX image (with metadata indicating a large width) in coders/dpx.c, a denial of service (OOM) can occur in ReadDPXImage().