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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVE-2017-12432

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadPCXImage in coders/pcx.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

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

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published