CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18273
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-05-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16 x86_64 2017-12-22, an infinite loop vulnerability was found in the function ReadTXTImage in coders/txt.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted image file that is mishandled in a GetImageIndexInList call.
Affected configurations
• imagemagick imagemagick 7.0.7-16
• debian debian linux 7.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/910 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00012.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/910 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00012.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ Third Party Advisory