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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-13777: Excessive Iteration

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-13777: Excessive Iteration

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/30/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/20/2017
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick

References

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