Vulnerability CVE-2017-18271
Published: 2018-05-18

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.

Type:

CWE-835

 (Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.1/10
6.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Imagemagick -> Imagemagick 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/911
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00012.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00015.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
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