CVE-2017-14175: canonical ubuntu_linux Excessive Iteration

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-14175 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Excessive Iteration vulnerability in canonical ubuntu_linux. EPSS estimates a 2.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 07-09-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In coders/xbm.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 Q16, a DoS in ReadXBMImage() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check might cause huge CPU consumption. When a crafted XBM file, which claims large rows and columns fields in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, is provided, the loop over the rows would consume huge CPU resources, since there is no EOF check inside the loop.

• CWE-834Excessive IterationThe product performs an iteration or loop without sufficiently limiting the number of times that the loop is executed.