Resource exhaustion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-12691
Published: April 27, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12271
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12691
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ImageMagick.org
Affected software:
ImageMagick
ImageMagick
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-12691
Install update from vendor's website.