Out-of-bounds read in ImageMagick - CVE-2019-13297

 

Out-of-bounds read in ImageMagick - CVE-2019-13297

Published: September 12, 2019 / Updated: September 12, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU21070
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-2019-13297
CWE-ID: CWE-125
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 heap-based buffer over-read in AdaptiveThresholdImage in the "MagickCore/threshold.c" file because a height of zero is mishandled. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

ImageMagick
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
imagemagick6 (Alpine package)
perlmagick (Ubuntu package)
libmagickwand5 (Ubuntu package)
libmagickwand-dev (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore5-extra (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore5 (Ubuntu package)
libmagickcore-dev (Ubuntu package)
libmagick++5 (Ubuntu package)
libmagick++-dev (Ubuntu package)
imagemagick (Ubuntu package)
php70-pecl-imagick
php71-pecl-imagick
php72-pecl-imagick
php54-pecl-imagick
php55-pecl-imagick
php56-pecl-imagick
imagemagick (Debian package)
ImageMagick

How to mitigate CVE-2019-13297

Install update from vendor's website.

ImageMagick - update to 7.0.8-51
imagemagick6 (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 6.9.10.55-r0, 6.9.10.56-r0, 6.9.10.68-r0
perlmagick (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickwand5 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickwand-dev (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickcore5-extra (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickcore5 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagickcore-dev (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagick++5 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
libmagick++-dev (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
imagemagick (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
php70-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-1.7
php71-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.8
php72-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.10
php54-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.11
php55-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.15
php56-pecl-imagick - update to 3.4.4-2.16
imagemagick (Debian package) - update to 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+deb10u1
ImageMagick - update to 6.9.10.68-3.22

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