Resource exhaustion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-12691
Published: April 27, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12271
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12691
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 ReadOneLayer function in coders/xcf.c due to memory consumption. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists in the ReadOneLayer function in coders/xcf.c due to memory consumption. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
Affected software
ImageMagick
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2017-12691
Install update from vendor's website.