CVE-2017-18229 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-18229?

CVE-2017-18229 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 14 Mar 2018. 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

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.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-18229?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick.

How do I fix CVE-2017-18229?

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-2017-18229 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-18229 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18229, GHSA-gmqc-66m4-mcgh, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18229.