vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-5685: Security patch for GraphicsMagick (ALAS-2018-966)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jan 13, 2018 | Mar 9, 2018 | Mar 2, 2020 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 13, 2018
Added
Mar 9, 2018
Modified
Mar 2, 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
amazon-linux-upgrade-graphicsmagick
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