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CVE-2017-18252 (GCVE-0-2017-18252)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-27 03:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:13
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. The MogrifyImageList function in MagickWand/mogrify.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application exit in ReplaceImageInList) via a crafted file.
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
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/802 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2018-03-26 00:00
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