CVE-2013-4589 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-4589?

CVE-2013-4589 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 23 Nov 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The ExportAlphaQuantumType function in export.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.18 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to exporting the alpha of an 8-bit RGBA image.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4589?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit, Novell Suse Studio Onsite.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4589?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-4589 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4589 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4589, GHSA-vj5h-42mr-vg2g, MGASA-2013-0350, MGASA-2013-0355.