SB20171211331 - Memory corruption in graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
Published: December 11, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB20171211331
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14314)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on th etarget system.The weakness exists in the DrawImage function in magick/render.c due to off-by-one error. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file, trigger heap-based buffer over-read and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.