Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2019-7396
Published: February 14, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU17704
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7396
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ImageMagick.org
Affected software:
ImageMagick
ImageMagick
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due a memory leak in the ReadSIXELImage function, as defined in the coders/sixel.c source code file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing a file that submits malicious input and perform denial of service attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-7396
Update to version 7.0.8-25.