Denial of service in ImageMagick

1) Memory corruption

EUVDB-ID: #VU10462

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1: 3.2 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6876

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to a stack-based buffer under-read flaw in the OLEProperty class in ole/oleprop.cpp in libfpx 1.3.1-10, used in ImageMagic. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application that creates FPX images and perform a denial of service attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

ImageMagick: 7.0.7-22

External links

http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/973

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.