Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-18229 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
graphicsmagick
debian
CWE-770
nessus
NVD
Published: 2018-03-14
Updated: 2020-02-10

Summary

An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Graphicsmagick
1
OS
Debian
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Locate and Exploit Test APIs
    An attacker exploits a sample, demonstration, or test API that is insecure by default and should not be resident on production systems. Some applications include APIs that are intended to allow an administrator to test and refine their domain. These APIs should usually be disabled once a system enters a production environment. Testing APIs may expose a great deal of diagnostic information intended to aid an administrator, but which can also be used by an attacker to further refine their attack. Moreover, testing APIs may not have adequate security controls or may not have undergone rigorous testing since they were not intended for use in production environments. As such, they may have many flaws and vulnerabilities that would allow an attacker to severely disrupt a target.
  • Flooding
    An attacker consumes the resources of a target by rapidly engaging in a large number of interactions with the target. This type of attack generally exposes a weakness in rate limiting or flow control in management of interactions. Since each request consumes some of the target's resources, if a sufficiently large number of requests must be processed at the same time then the target's resources can be exhausted. The degree to which the attack is successful depends upon the volume of requests in relation to the amount of the resource the target has access to, and other mitigating circumstances such as the target's ability to shift load or acquired additional resources to deal with the depletion. The more protected the resource and the greater the quantity of it that must be consumed, the more resources the attacker may need to have at their disposal. A typical TCP/IP flooding attack is a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack where many machines simultaneously make a large number of requests to a target. Against a target with strong defenses and a large pool of resources, many tens of thousands of attacking machines may be required. When successful this attack prevents legitimate users from accessing the service and can cause the target to crash. This attack differs from resource depletion through leaks or allocations in that the latter attacks do not rely on the volume of requests made to the target but instead focus on manipulation of the target's operations. The key factor in a flooding attack is the number of requests the attacker can make in a given period of time. The greater this number, the more likely an attack is to succeed against a given target.
  • Excessive Allocation
    An attacker causes the target to allocate excessive resources to servicing the attackers' request, thereby reducing the resources available for legitimate services and degrading or denying services. Usually, this attack focuses on memory allocation, but any finite resource on the target could be the attacked, including bandwidth, processing cycles, or other resources. This attack does not attempt to force this allocation through a large number of requests (that would be Resource Depletion through Flooding) but instead uses one or a small number of requests that are carefully formatted to force the target to allocate excessive resources to service this request(s). Often this attack takes advantage of a bug in the target to cause the target to allocate resources vastly beyond what would be needed for a normal request. For example, using an Integer Attack, the attacker could cause a variable that controls allocation for a request to hold an excessively large value. Excessive allocation of resources can render a service degraded or unavailable to legitimate users and can even lead to crashing of the target.
  • XML Ping of the Death
    An attacker initiates a resource depletion attack where a large number of small XML messages are delivered at a sufficiently rapid rate to cause a denial of service or crash of the target. Transactions such as repetitive SOAP transactions can deplete resources faster than a simple flooding attack because of the additional resources used by the SOAP protocol and the resources necessary to process SOAP messages. The transactions used are immaterial as long as they cause resource utilization on the target. In other words, this is a normal flooding attack augmented by using messages that will require extra processing on the target.
  • XML Entity Expansion
    An attacker submits an XML document to a target application where the XML document uses nested entity expansion to produce an excessively large output XML. XML allows the definition of macro-like structures that can be used to simplify the creation of complex structures. However, this capability can be abused to create excessive demands on a processor's CPU and memory. A small number of nested expansions can result in an exponential growth in demands on memory.

Nessus

  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-1322.NASL
    descriptionVarious security issues were discovered in Graphicsmagick, a collection of image processing tools. CVE-2017-18219 An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt at a large png_pixels array allocation. CVE-2017-18220 The ReadOneJNGImage and ReadJNGImage functions in coders/png.c allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, a related issue to CVE-2017-11403. CVE-2017-18229 An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations. CVE-2017-18230 A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the function ReadCINEONImage in coders/cineon.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. CVE-2017-18231 A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the function ReadEnhMetaFile in coders/emf.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. CVE-2018-9018 There is a divide-by-zero error in the ReadMNGImage function of coders/png.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a crash and denial of service via a crafted mng file. For Debian 7
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2018-03-29
    plugin id108692
    published2018-03-29
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/108692
    titleDebian DLA-1322-1 : graphicsmagick security update
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1322-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(108692);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-18219", "CVE-2017-18220", "CVE-2017-18229", "CVE-2017-18230", "CVE-2017-18231", "CVE-2018-9018");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1322-1 : graphicsmagick security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Various security issues were discovered in Graphicsmagick, a
collection of image processing tools.

CVE-2017-18219 An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the
function ReadOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to
cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers an attempt
at a large png_pixels array allocation.

CVE-2017-18220 The ReadOneJNGImage and ReadJNGImage functions in
coders/png.c allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or
possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, a related
issue to CVE-2017-11403.

CVE-2017-18229 An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the
function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to
cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not
properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations.

CVE-2017-18230 A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in
the function ReadCINEONImage in coders/cineon.c, which allows
attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

CVE-2017-18231 A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in
the function ReadEnhMetaFile in coders/emf.c, which allows attackers
to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

CVE-2018-9018 There is a divide-by-zero error in the ReadMNGImage
function of coders/png.c. Remote attackers could leverage this
vulnerability to cause a crash and denial of service via a crafted mng
file.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version
1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19.

We recommend that you upgrade your graphicsmagick packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00025.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/graphicsmagick"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick-dbg");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphics-magick-perl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick++1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick++3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/03/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/03/29");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"graphicsmagick", reference:"1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"graphicsmagick-dbg", reference:"1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat", reference:"1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat", reference:"1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libgraphics-magick-perl", reference:"1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libgraphicsmagick++1-dev", reference:"1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libgraphicsmagick++3", reference:"1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libgraphicsmagick1-dev", reference:"1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libgraphicsmagick3", reference:"1.3.16-1.1+deb7u19")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DLA-1456.NASL
    descriptionVarious vulnerabilities were discovered in graphicsmagick, a collection of image processing tools and associated libraries, resulting in denial of service, information disclosure, and a variety of buffer overflows and overreads. For Debian 8
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id111520
    published2018-08-03
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/111520
    titleDebian DLA-1456-1 : graphicsmagick security update
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-1456-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(111520);
  script_version("1.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/07/15 14:20:30");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-5239", "CVE-2017-11102", "CVE-2017-11140", "CVE-2017-11403", "CVE-2017-11637", "CVE-2017-11638", "CVE-2017-11641", "CVE-2017-11642", "CVE-2017-12935", "CVE-2017-12936", "CVE-2017-13737", "CVE-2017-13775", "CVE-2017-13776", "CVE-2017-13777", "CVE-2017-14504", "CVE-2017-14994", "CVE-2017-14997", "CVE-2017-15277", "CVE-2017-15930", "CVE-2017-16352", "CVE-2017-16545", "CVE-2017-16547", "CVE-2017-18219", "CVE-2017-18220", "CVE-2017-18229", "CVE-2017-18230", "CVE-2017-18231", "CVE-2017-6335", "CVE-2017-9098", "CVE-2018-5685", "CVE-2018-6799", "CVE-2018-9018");

  script_name(english:"Debian DLA-1456-1 : graphicsmagick security update");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Various vulnerabilities were discovered in graphicsmagick, a
collection of image processing tools and associated libraries,
resulting in denial of service, information disclosure, and a variety
of buffer overflows and overreads.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version
1.3.20-3+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your graphicsmagick packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description
block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted
to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without
introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/graphicsmagick"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick-dbg");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphics-magick-perl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick++1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick++3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick1-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgraphicsmagick3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/03/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/08/02");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/08/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"graphicsmagick", reference:"1.3.20-3+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"graphicsmagick-dbg", reference:"1.3.20-3+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat", reference:"1.3.20-3+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat", reference:"1.3.20-3+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libgraphics-magick-perl", reference:"1.3.20-3+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libgraphicsmagick++1-dev", reference:"1.3.20-3+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libgraphicsmagick++3", reference:"1.3.20-3+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libgraphicsmagick1-dev", reference:"1.3.20-3+deb8u4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"libgraphicsmagick3", reference:"1.3.20-3+deb8u4")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-4266-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that GraphicsMagick incorrectly handled certain image files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id133497
    published2020-02-05
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/133497
    titleUbuntu 16.04 LTS : graphicsmagick vulnerabilities (USN-4266-1)
  • NASL familyDebian Local Security Checks
    NASL idDEBIAN_DSA-4321.NASL
    descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities have been discovered in GraphicsMagick, a set of command-line applications to manipulate image files, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if malformed image files are processed.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id118179
    published2018-10-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118179
    titleDebian DSA-4321-1 : graphicsmagick - security update
  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2018-407.NASL
    descriptionThis update for GraphicsMagick fixes the following issues : - security update (core) - CVE-2018-6799: The AcquireCacheNexus function in magick/pixel_cache.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap overwrite) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file, because a pixel staging area is not used. [boo#1080522] - security update (png.c) - CVE-2018-9018: In GraphicsMagick 1.3.28, there is a divide-by-zero in the ReadMNGImage function of coders/png.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a crash and denial of service via a crafted mng file. [boo#1086773] - security update (gif.c) - CVE-2017-18254: An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. A memory leak vulnerability was found in the function WriteGIFImage in coders/gif.c, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. [boo#1087027] - security update (pcd.c) - CVE-2017-18251: An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. A memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadPCDImage in coders/pcd.c, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. [boo#1087037] - CVE-2017-18229: An issue was discovered in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26. An allocation failure vulnerability was found in the function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file, because file size is not properly used to restrict scanline, strip, and tile allocations. [boo#1085236] - CVE-2017-11641: GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a Memory Leak in the PersistCache function in magick/pixel_cache.c during writing of Magick Persistent Cache (MPC) files.[boo#1050623] - CVE-2017-13066: GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a memory leak vulnerability in the function CloneImage in magick/image.c. [boo#1055010] - CVE-2018-10177: Specially crafted PNG images may have triggered an infinite loop [bsc#1089781]
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2018-05-02
    plugin id109521
    published2018-05-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/109521
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : GraphicsMagick (openSUSE-2018-407)

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