SB2022101003 - Denial of service in ImageMagick
Published: October 10, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022101003
Severity
Medium
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 security vulnerability.
1) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1115)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/4974
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1115
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/c8718305f120293d8bf13724f12eed885d830b09
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/1f860f52bd8d58737ad883072203391096b30b51
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2067022