Resource Management Errors Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions [0,1.3.27)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GRAPHICSMAGICK-2380562
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Mar 2018

CVE-2017-18229  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade graphicsmagick to version 1.3.27 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations.

CVSS Scores

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