Excessive Iteration Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions <1.3.23-1ubuntu0.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.16% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-GRAPHICSMAGICK-352440
  • published30 Aug 2017
  • disclosed30 Aug 2017

Introduced: 30 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13777  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-834  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 graphicsmagick to version 1.3.23-1ubuntu0.3 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:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a denial of service issue in ReadXBMImage() in a coders/xbm.c "Read hex image data" version==10 case that results in the reader not returning; it would cause large amounts of CPU and memory consumption although the crafted file itself does not request it.