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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14042: graphicsmagick Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14042: graphicsmagick Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/30/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/11/2017
Modified
06/17/2022

Description

A memory allocation failure was discovered in the ReadPNMImage function in coders/pnm.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. The vulnerability causes a big memory allocation, which may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickRealloc function in magick/memory.c.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick

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