Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package imagemagick  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-IMAGEMAGICK-628423
  • published20 Mar 2017
  • disclosed20 Mar 2017

Introduced: 20 Mar 2017

CVE-2014-9849  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The png coder in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).