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Resource Management Errors

CVE-2008-3134

Medium
5/10

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in GraphicsMagick before 1.2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash, infinite loop, or memory consumption) via (a) unspecified vectors in the (1) AVI, (2) AVS, (3) DCM, (4) EPT, (5) FITS, (6) MTV, (7) PALM, (8) RLA, and (9) TGA decoder readers; and (b) the GetImageCharacteristics function in magick/image.c, as reachable from a crafted (10) PNG, (11) JPEG, (12) BMP, or (13) TIFF file.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Resource management errors is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to improper management of system resources. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category can lead to unexpected software behavior, loss of access, file modification, sensitive information disclosure, system crash, denial of service, and code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published