PT-2017-18282 · Unknown · Imageworsener

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-04-29 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-8327

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ImageWorsener versions prior to 1.3.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, by utilizing a crafted image. This is due to a problem in the bmpr read uncompressed function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.3.1, update to version 1.3.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of untrusted image files until the update is applied.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-8327

Affected Products

Imageworsener

References · 5

• https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener/commit/86564051db45b466e5f667111ce00b5eeedc8fb6 · Patch
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/27/imageworsener-memory-allocation-failure-in-my_mallocfn-imagew-cmd-c · Patch
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-06 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8327 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8327 · Security Note