Out-of-bounds read in ImageMagick - CVE-2019-10714

 

Out-of-bounds read in ImageMagick - CVE-2019-10714

Published: April 8, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU18152
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10714
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when processing images within the LocaleLowercase() function in MagickCore/locale.c. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted image, pass it to the affected application, trigger out-of-bounds read error and perform denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

ImageMagick
Fedora
GraphicsMagick

How to mitigate CVE-2019-10714

Install updates from vendor's website.

ImageMagick - update to 7.0.8-32
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.34-1.el7, 1.3.34-1.el8

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