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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2017-12140

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

The ReadDCMImage function in "coders\dcm.c" in ImageMagick6 before 6.9.9-0 and ImageMagick7 before 7.0.6-1 has an integer signedness error leading to excessive memory consumption via a crafted DCM file.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published