Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-12563

 

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-12563

Published: August 5, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU38592
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12563
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: ImageMagick.org
Affected software:
ImageMagick

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-2, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadPSDImage in coders/psd.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-12563

Install update from vendor's website.

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