CVE-2017-18273 — Infinite Loop in Imagemagick

CWE-835 — Infinite Loop8 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 54.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
ImagemagickDebian ImagemagickCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedMay 18
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/imagemagick< imagemagick 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-m343-cxj8-fq77: In ImageMagick 7↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-18273: In ImageMagick 7↗2018-05-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2018-06-12
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: infinite loop ReadTXTImage in function in coders/txt.c↗2017-12-21
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Debian
CVE-2017-18273: imagemagick - In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16 x86_64 2017-12-22, an infinite loop vulnerability wa...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-18271 CVE-2017-18272 CVE-2017-18273 CVE-2018-11251 ImageMagick: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2018-05-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-18273 ImageMagick: infinite loop ReadTXTImage in function in coders/txt.c↗2018-05-22
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