Null pointer dereference in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-16328

Vulnerability identifier: #VU14609

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16328

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists in the CheckEventLogging function of ImageMagick due to boundary error when processing malicious input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing an image file that submits malicious input, trigger a NULL pointer dereference condition in the CheckEventLogging function, as defined in the MagickCore/log.c source code file and cause the service to crash.

ImageMagick
Amazon Linux AMI
Opensuse
php70-pecl-imagick
php71-pecl-imagick
php72-pecl-imagick
php54-pecl-imagick
php55-pecl-imagick
php56-pecl-imagick
ImageMagick

Update to version 7.0.8-8.

ImageMagick - update to 7.0.8-8
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

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1224

• Denial of service in ImageMagick
• OpenSUSE Linux update for ImageMagick
• Amazon Linux AMI update for php72-pecl-imagick
• Amazon Linux AMI update for php71-pecl-imagick
• Amazon Linux AMI update for php70-pecl-imagick
• Amazon Linux AMI update for php55-pecl-imagick
• Amazon Linux AMI update for php56-pecl-imagick
• Amazon Linux AMI update for php54-pecl-imagick
• Amazon Linux AMI update for ImageMagick