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Ubuntu: USN-4266-1 (CVE-2017-18229): GraphicsMagick vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4266-1 (CVE-2017-18229): GraphicsMagick vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
02/08/2020
Added
02/06/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-graphicsmagick
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgraphicsmagick-q16-12
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgraphicsmagick-q16-3

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