SB2017092130 - Reachable Assertion in GraphicsMagick
Published: September 21, 2017 Updated: August 4, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017092130
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14649)
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
ReadOneJNGImage in coders/png.c in GraphicsMagick version 1.3.26 does not properly validate JNG data, leading to a denial of service (assertion failure in magick/pixel_cache.c, and application crash).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/358608a46f0a
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100958
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/19/graphicsmagick-assertion-failure-in-pixel_cache-c/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PF62B5PJA2JDUOCKJGUQO3SPL74BEYSV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WHIKB4TP6KBJWT2UIPWL5MWMG5QXKGEJ/
- https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/439/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4232-1/