SB2018102205 - Denial of service in ImageMagick
Published: October 22, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018102205
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18544)
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:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to memory leak in the WriteMSLImage function, as defined in the coders/msl.c source code file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing a file that submits malicious input, trigger memory leak and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.