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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-5685: Security patch for GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2018-966)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-5685: Security patch for GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2018-966)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/09/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

In GraphicsMagick 1.3.27, there is an infinite loop and application hang in the ReadBMPImage function (coders/bmp.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via an image file with a crafted bit-field mask value.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick

References

  • ALAS-2018-966
  • DSA-4321
  • CVE-2018-5685

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