vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-18219: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 5, 2018
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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