vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14042: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 30, 2017
Added
Dec 11, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

alpine-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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