CVE-2018-5685

In GraphicsMagick 1.3.27, there is an infinite loop and application hang in the ReadBMPImage function (coders/bmp.c). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via an image file with a crafted bit-field mask value.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-01-14

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-835

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Graphicsmagick (Graphicsmagick)

References

• http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/52a91ddb1aa6
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00018.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/541/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321