Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u10
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-IMAGEMAGICK-401046
- published 18 May 2018
- disclosed 18 May 2018
Introduced: 18 May 2018
CVE-2017-18273 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
imagemagick
to version 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u10 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 Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16 x86_64 2017-12-22, an infinite loop vulnerability was found in the function ReadTXTImage in coders/txt.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted image file that is mishandled in a GetImageIndexInList call.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18273
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/910
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-18273
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/