Denial of service in ImageMagick

1) Stack-based buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU77451

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-2023-3195

CWE-ID: CWE-121 - Stack-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 in coders/tiff.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted TIFF file to the application, trigger a stack overflow and crash the application.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

ImageMagick: before 6.9.12-26

External links

http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/85a370c79afeb45a97842b0959366af5236e9023
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214141
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q2/223

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.