SB2017100317 - Buffer overflow in graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
Published: October 3, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017100317
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14042)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
A memory allocation failure was discovered in the ReadPNMImage function in coders/pnm.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. The vulnerability causes a big memory allocation, which may lead to remote denial of service in the MagickRealloc function in magick/memory.c.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.