Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-17966

Vulnerability identifier: #VU15565

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-2018-17966

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within the function WritePDBImage in coders/sgi.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack via a specially crafted file.

ImageMagick
imagemagick6 (Alpine package)
openSUSE Leap
imagemagick (Ubuntu package)
libmagick++-dev (Ubuntu package)
libmagick++5 (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore-dev (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore5 (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore5-extra (Ubuntu package)
libmagickwand-dev (Ubuntu package)
libmagickwand5 (Ubuntu package)
perlmagick (Ubuntu package)
Ubuntu
Opensuse

Install updates from vendor's website.

imagemagick6 (Alpine package) - update to 6.9.10.37-r0
imagemagick (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagick++-dev (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagick++5 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickcore-dev (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickcore5 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickcore5-extra (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickwand-dev (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickwand5 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
perlmagick (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1050

• OpenSUSE Linux update for ImageMagick
• OpenSUSE Linux update for ImageMagick
• Memory leak in imagemagick6 (Alpine package)
• Ubuntu update for imagemagick