Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU15564

Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-17965

Published: October 29, 2018

Vulnerability identifier: #VU15564

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-2018-17965

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 function WriteSGIImage in coders/sgi.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack via a specially crafted file.

Affected software

ImageMagick
imagemagick6 (Alpine package)
openSUSE Leap

How to mitigate CVE-2018-17965

Install updates from vendor's website.

imagemagick6 (Alpine package) - update to 6.9.10.37-r0

External References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1052

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