CVE-2018-5685

medium

Description

In GraphicsMagick 1.3.27, there is an infinite loop and application hang in the ReadBMPImage function (coders/bmp.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via an image file with a crafted bit-field mask value.

References

http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/52a91ddb1aa6

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00018.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html

https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/541/

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-01-14

Updated: 2019-10-03

Type: CWE-835

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM