Memory corruption in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-14314

 

Memory corruption in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-14314

Published: April 13, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11809
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14314
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on th etarget system.

The weakness exists in the DrawImage function in magick/render.c due to off-by-one error. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file, trigger heap-based buffer over-read and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

GraphicsMagick
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
GraphicsMagick
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2017-14314

Install update from vendor's website.

graphicsmagick (Alpine package) - update to 1.3.27-r0
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.34-1.el7, 1.3.34-1.el8

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