Input validation error in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-13776
Published: August 30, 2017 / Updated: August 4, 2020
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 ReadXBMImage() in a coders/xbm.c "Read hex image data" version!=10 case that results in the reader not returning; it would cause large amounts of CPU and memory consumption although the crafted file itself does not request it.
Affected software
Arch Linux
Fedora
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
GraphicsMagick
How to mitigate CVE-2017-13776
graphicsmagick (Alpine package) - update to 1.3.25-r4
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.34-1.el7, 1.3.34-1.el8