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

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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
03/05/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

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(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick

References

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