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CVE-2017-18229 (GCVE-0-2017-18229)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-14 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:13
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Summary
An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-03-13 00:00
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