Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions [,1.3.26)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.16% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GRAPHICSMAGICK-2380551
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-5241  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade graphicsmagick to version 1.3.26 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) magick/render.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (arithmetic exception and application crash) via a crafted svg file.

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