CVE-2017-6335 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted CMYKA TIFF file in GraphicsMagick, leading to an application crash.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2017-6335?

CVE-2017-6335 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick, published on 14 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The QuantumTransferMode function in coders/tiff.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a small samples per pixel value in a CMYKA TIFF file.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6335?

It affects 1 product.

Linux distribution packages (2)
GraphicsMagick SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4All versions1.2.5-4.65.1
GraphicsMagick SUSE:Studio Onsite 1.3All versions1.2.5-4.65.1

Products include Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick.

How do I fix CVE-2017-6335?

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-2017-6335 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6335 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6335, GHSA-fw22-8f9r-x377, SUSE-SU-2017:0918-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6335.

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