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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-5685): GraphicsMagick vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-5685): GraphicsMagick vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/14/2018
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/10/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-graphicsmagick
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgraphicsmagick-q16-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgraphicsmagick3

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