Description
The DrawDashPolygon function in magick/render.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 and the SVG renderer in ImageMagick allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by converting a circularly defined SVG file.
Published: 2017-02-27
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-574-1 graphicsmagick security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-547-2 graphicsmagick regression update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3746-1 graphicsmagick security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-6191 The DrawDashPolygon function in magick/render.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 and the SVG renderer in ImageMagick allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) by converting a circularly defined SVG file.
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Graphicsmagick Graphicsmagick
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.907Z

Reserved: 2016-06-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-5240

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-02-27T22:59:00.433

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-5240

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5240 - Bugzilla

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