CVE-2017-11352 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

A crafted RLE image can crash ImageMagick due to incorrect EOF handling, causing a denial of service for applications using the library.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2017-11352?

CVE-2017-11352 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

In ImageMagick before 7.0.5-10, a crafted RLE image can trigger a crash because of incorrect EOF handling in coders/rle.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-9144.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-11352?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2017-11352?

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-2017-11352 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-11352 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11352, GHSA-hmjr-rw67-gcrj, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11352.

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