vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-5685: graphicsmagick -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 13, 2018
Added
Oct 18, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-graphicsmagick
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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