Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-13153

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Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-13153

Published: July 5, 2018 / Updated: July 5, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13584
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-2018-13153
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the XMagickCommand function in MagickCore/animate.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted image file, consume excessive memory and cause the service to crash.


Affected software

ImageMagick
Amazon Linux AMI
Ubuntu
imagemagick6 (Alpine package)
libmagickcore5 (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore5-extra (Ubuntu package)
libmagick++5 (Ubuntu package)
imagemagick (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore-6.q16-2 (Ubuntu package)
libmagick++-6.q16-5v5 (Ubuntu package)
imagemagick-6.q16 (Ubuntu package)
libmagick++-6.q16-7 (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore-6.q16-3 (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extra (Ubuntu package)
php70-pecl-imagick
php71-pecl-imagick
php72-pecl-imagick
php54-pecl-imagick
php55-pecl-imagick
php56-pecl-imagick
ImageMagick

How to mitigate CVE-2018-13153

Install update from vendor's website.

imagemagick6 (Alpine package) - update to 6.9.10.37-r0
libmagickcore5 (Ubuntu package) - update to 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.12
libmagickcore5-extra (Ubuntu package) - update to 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.12
libmagick++5 (Ubuntu package) - update to 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.12
imagemagick (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.12, 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.12, 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu2.3, 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.3
libmagickcore-6.q16-2-extra (Ubuntu package) - update to 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.12
libmagickcore-6.q16-2 (Ubuntu package) - update to 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.12
libmagick++-6.q16-5v5 (Ubuntu package) - update to 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.12
imagemagick-6.q16 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.12, 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu2.3, 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.3
libmagick++-6.q16-7 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu2.3, 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.3
libmagickcore-6.q16-3 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu2.3, 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.3
libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extra (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu2.3, 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.3
php70-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-1.7
php71-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.8
php72-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.10
php54-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.11
php55-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.15
php56-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.16
ImageMagick - update to 6.9.10.68-3.22

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