Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-18544

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Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-18544

Published: October 22, 2018 / Updated: October 22, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15461
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-2018-18544
CWE-ID: CWE-401
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 vulnerability exists due to memory leak in the WriteMSLImage function, as defined in the coders/msl.c source code file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing a file that submits malicious input, trigger memory leak and cause the service to crash.


Affected software

ImageMagick
Amazon Linux AMI
Ubuntu
Opensuse
openEuler
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
imagemagick6 (Alpine package)
GraphicsMagick-devel
GraphicsMagick-debugsource
GraphicsMagick-perl
GraphicsMagick-debuginfo
GraphicsMagick-c++
GraphicsMagick-c++-devel
GraphicsMagick-help
GraphicsMagick
php70-pecl-imagick
php71-pecl-imagick
php72-pecl-imagick
php54-pecl-imagick
php55-pecl-imagick
php56-pecl-imagick
imagemagick (Ubuntu package)
ImageMagick

How to mitigate CVE-2018-18544

Update to version 7.0.8-14.

ImageMagick - update to 7.0.8-14
graphicsmagick (Alpine package) - update to 1.3.35-r0
imagemagick6 (Alpine package) - update to 6.9.10.37-r0
GraphicsMagick-devel - update to 1.3.30-9
GraphicsMagick-debugsource - update to 1.3.30-9
GraphicsMagick-perl - update to 1.3.30-9
GraphicsMagick-debuginfo - update to 1.3.30-9
GraphicsMagick-c++ - update to 1.3.30-9
GraphicsMagick-c++-devel - update to 1.3.30-9
GraphicsMagick-help - update to 1.3.30-9
GraphicsMagick - update to 1.3.30-9
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 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.13+esm21, 8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.16+esm20, 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.15+esm12, 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu11.11+esm10, 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.5+esm10, 8:6.9.12.98+dfsg1-5.2ubuntu0.1~esm9, 8:7.1.2.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1
ImageMagick - update to 6.9.10.68-3.22

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