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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-7800: Security patch for GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2017-820)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-7800: Security patch for GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2017-820)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/28/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/20/2017
Modified
02/02/2018

Description

Integer underflow in the parse8BIM function in coders/meta.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted 8BIM chunk, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick

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