CVE-2017-18271 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-18271?

CVE-2017-18271 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 May 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

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16 x86_64 2017-12-22, an infinite loop vulnerability was found in the function ReadMIFFImage in coders/miff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted MIFF image file.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-18271?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2017-18271?

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-2017-18271 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-18271 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18271, GHSA-mcqr-w7vq-7qjv, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18271.