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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-7448: Security patch for GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2016-752)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-7448: Security patch for GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2016-752)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/01/2017
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

The Utah RLE reader in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or large memory allocations) via vectors involving the header information and the file size.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick

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