Excessive Iteration Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.11


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-IMAGEMAGICK-401257
  • published7 Aug 2017
  • disclosed7 Aug 2017

Introduced: 7 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12674  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-834  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 imagemagick to version 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.11 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-2, a CPU exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadPDBImage in coders/pdb.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.