Denial of service in ImageMagick

Published: 2022-07-06 | Updated: 2022-09-02

Risk	Low
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2022-32547 CVE-2022-2719
CWE-ID	CWE-704 CWE-617
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	ImageMagick Client/Desktop applications / Multimedia software
Vendor	ImageMagick.org

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Type conversion

EUVDB-ID: #VU64949

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-2022-32547

CWE-ID: CWE-704 - Type conversion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to a load of misaligned address for type 'double' in MagickCore/property.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file and perform a denial of service attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

ImageMagick: 6.9.12-0 - 7.1.0-29

External links

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2091813
http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/dc070da861a015d3c97488fdcca6063b44d47a7b
http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/eac8ce4d873f28bb6a46aa3a662fb196b49b95d0

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.

2) Reachable Assertion

EUVDB-ID: #VU66952

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2719

CWE-ID: CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion