Amazon Linux AMI update for ImageMagick

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU74300

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1289

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when parsing SVG files. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted SVG file that contains many render actions and consume all available disk space on the system.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages:

i686:
    ImageMagick-c++-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.i686
    ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.i686
    ImageMagick-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.i686
    ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.i686
    ImageMagick-devel-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.i686
    ImageMagick-perl-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.i686
    ImageMagick-doc-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.i686

src:
    ImageMagick-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    ImageMagick-devel-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-doc-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-perl-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-c++-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.9.10.97-1.25.amzn1.x86_64

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

ImageMagick: before 6.9.10.97-1.25

External links

http://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1745.html

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.