Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU12864

Information disclosure in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-13143

Published: May 20, 2018 / Updated: May 21, 2018

Vulnerability identifier: #VU12864

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13143

CWE-ID: CWE-200

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists in the ReadMATImage function in coders/mat.c due to using uninitialized data. A remote attacker can gain access to potentially sensitive information from process memory.

Affected software

ImageMagick
Debian Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2017-13143

Update to version 6.9.7-6 or 7.0.4-6.

External References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/362

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