CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-18271

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: May 18, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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 7.0.7-16 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.

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 7.0.7-16 (including) 7.0.7-16 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat autotrace-0:0.31.1-38.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat emacs-1:24.3-23.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat ImageMagick-0:6.9.10.68-3.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat inkscape-0:0.92.2-3.el7 *
Imagemagick Ubuntu artful *
Imagemagick Ubuntu bionic *
Imagemagick Ubuntu devel *
Imagemagick Ubuntu trusty *
Imagemagick Ubuntu upstream *
Imagemagick Ubuntu xenial *

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