CVE-2017-7943 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-7943?

CVE-2017-7943 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 18 Apr 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

The ReadSVGImage function in svg.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-4 allows remote attackers to consume an amount of available memory via a crafted file.

Weakness: CWE-772

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7943?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2017-7943?

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-2017-7943 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7943 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-2017-7943, GHSA-q8g4-vqmm-35r3, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7943.