CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2017-13777 — Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.1

GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a denial of service issue in ReadXBMImage() in a coders/xbm.c "Read hex image data" version==10 case that results in the reader not returning; it would cause large amounts of CPU and memory consumption although the crafted file itself does not request it.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.1 (2.0)
Published
2017-08-30
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-834

Affected products

  • graphicsmagick / graphicsmagick / 1.3.26
  • debian / debian_linux / 8.0
  • debian / debian_linux / 9.0

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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