SB2017052211 - Denial of service in ImageMagic
Published: May 22, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017052211
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9098)
CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.