Denial of service in ImageMagick
| Risk | Medium |
| Patch available | YES |
| Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
| CVE-ID | CVE-2023-3428 |
| CWE-ID | CWE-119 |
| 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 one medium risk vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow
EUVDB-ID: #VU77938
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-2023-3428
CWE-ID:
CWE-119 - Memory corruption
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing TIFF files in coders/tiff.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted TIFF file to the application, trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Install update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsImageMagick: 6.9.0-0 - 7.6.0-0
External linkshttp://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a531d28e31309676ce8168c3b6dbbb5374b78790
http://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/0d00400727170b0540a355a1bc52787bc7bcdea5
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.
