#VU19188 Resource exhaustion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-12805

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#VU19188 Resource exhaustion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-12805

Published: July 15, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19188
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12805
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
ImageMagick
Software vendor:
ImageMagick.org

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to a memory consumption condition in the "ReadTIFFImage()" function. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted file to the targeted system, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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