Resource management error in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2016-7448
Published: February 6, 2017 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32973
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7448
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The Utah RLE reader in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or large memory allocations) via vectors involving the header information and the file size.
Affected software
GraphicsMagick
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2016-7448
Install update from vendor's website.
GraphicsMagick - update to 1.3.25
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00094.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00097.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/18/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93074
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374233
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00009.html