Denial of service in ImageMagic

1) Memory leak

EUVDB-ID: #VU6836

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 3.8 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9098

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak in in the RLE decoder in ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 . A remote attacker can create create a specially crafted image file and gain access to certain parts of memory and trigger application crash. 

Mitigation

Update to version 7.0.5-2.

Vulnerable software versions

ImageMagick: 7.0.5-0 - 7.0.5-1

External links

http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/1c358ffe0049f768dd49a8a889c1cbf99ac9849b

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.