Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-6405

 

Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-6405

Published: February 1, 2018 / Updated: March 20, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10340
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6405
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the coders/dcm.c source code in the ReadDCMImage function due to memory leak. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing a file that submits malicious input, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Affected software

ImageMagick
imagemagick6 (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6405

Install update from vendor's website.

imagemagick6 (Alpine package) - update to 6.9.10.37-r0

External References

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