First published: Fri May 18 2018(Updated: )
ImageMagick is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw in the function ReadTXTImage in coders/txt.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
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 | |
IBM Data Risk Manager | <=2.0.6 | |
debian/imagemagick | 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u4 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u3 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u2 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u1 8:6.9.13.12+dfsg1-1 8:7.1.1.39+dfsg1-2 |
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CVE-2017-18273 is a vulnerability in ImageMagick that allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted image file.
The severity of the CVE-2017-18273 vulnerability is high with a severity value of 6.5.
ImageMagick versions 7.0.7-16 Q16 x86_64 and prior are affected by CVE-2017-18273.
To fix the CVE-2017-18273 vulnerability, apply the appropriate patches or updates provided by the software vendor.
You can find more information about CVE-2017-18273 at the following references: [link1](https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/910), [link2](https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00012.html), [link3](https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/).