Input validation error in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-13775
Published: August 30, 2017 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33771
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13775
CWE-ID: CWE-20
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.
GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a denial of service issue in ReadJNXImage() in coders/jnx.c whereby large amounts of CPU and memory resources may be consumed although the file itself does not support the requests.
Affected software
GraphicsMagick
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
GraphicsMagick
Fedora
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
GraphicsMagick
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2017-13775
Install update from vendor's website.
GraphicsMagick - update to 1.3.27
graphicsmagick (Alpine package) - update to 1.3.25-r4
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.32-1.fc29, 1.3.32-1.fc30, 1.3.34-1.el7, 1.3.34-1.el8
graphicsmagick (Alpine package) - update to 1.3.25-r4
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.32-1.fc29, 1.3.32-1.fc30, 1.3.34-1.el7, 1.3.34-1.el8
External References
- http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/rev/b037d79b6ccd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/31/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100570
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
- 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://usn.ubuntu.com/4222-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321