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Uncontrolled Recursion

CVE-2019-18853

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

ImageMagick 6.x before 6.9.10-69 and ImageMagick 7.x before 7.0.9-0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service because XML_PARSE_HUGE is not properly restricted in "coders/svg.c", related to SVG and libxml2.

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

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published