CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-17681

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Dec 14, 2017 | Modified: Aug 19, 2020
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

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

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Imagemagick Imagemagick 7.0.7-12-q16 (including) 7.0.7-12-q16 (including)
Imagemagick Ubuntu artful *
Imagemagick Ubuntu bionic *
Imagemagick Ubuntu devel *
Imagemagick Ubuntu upstream *
Imagemagick Ubuntu xenial *
Imagemagick Ubuntu zesty *

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