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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-16669: Security patch for GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2018-966)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 8, 2017
Added
Mar 9, 2018
Modified
Mar 2, 2020

Description

coders/wpg.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, related to the AcquireCacheNexus function in magick/pixel_cache.c.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick
Title
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