CVE-2018-9133

ImageMagick: excessive iteration in the DecodeLabImage and EncodeLabImage functions in coders/tiff.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 29, 2018

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.7-26 Q16 has excessive iteration in the DecodeLabImage and EncodeLabImage functions (coders/tiff.c), which results in a hang (tens of minutes) with a tiny PoC file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tiff file.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')