Denial of service in ImageMagick



Published: 2022-10-10
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2022-1115
CWE-ID CWE-122
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		ImageMagick
Client/Desktop applications / Multimedia software

Vendor

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Heap-based buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU68076

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1115

CWE-ID: CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the PushShortPixel() function in quantum-private.h when processing TIFF images. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted TIFF image to the application, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

ImageMagick: before 6.9.12-44, 7.1.0-29

CPE2.3 External links

http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/4974
http://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1115
http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/c8718305f120293d8bf13724f12eed885d830b09
http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/1f860f52bd8d58737ad883072203391096b30b51
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2067022

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?



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