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SUSE: CVE-2017-18229: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-18229: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/03/2018
Modified
06/20/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-graphicsmagick
  • suse-upgrade-libgraphicsmagick2
  • suse-upgrade-perl-graphicsmagick

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