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Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CVE-2017-18273

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

In ImageMagick6 before 6.9.9-28 and ImageMagick7 before 7.0.7-16, an infinite loop vulnerability was found in the function ReadTXTImage in "coders/txt.c", which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU exhaustion) via a crafted image file that is mishandled in a GetImageIndexInList call.

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

CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

Loops with multiple exits and flags detract from the quality of an application. They tend to make control structures difficult to understand, and introduce the risk of non-termination and other structural problems. The vulnerability “loop with unreachable exit condition” enables attackers to exploit this flaw, leading to denial of service.

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  • Published