Heap-based buffer overflow in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2016-7800

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Heap-based buffer overflow in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2016-7800

Published: February 6, 2017 / Updated: August 3, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33181
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-2016-7800
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in Integer underflow in the parse8BIM function in coders/meta.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 and earlier. A remote attacker can use a crafted 8BIM chunk to trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

GraphicsMagick
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
graphicsmagick (Alpine package)
GraphicsMagick

How to mitigate CVE-2016-7800

Update to version 1.3.26.

GraphicsMagick - update to 1.3.26
GraphicsMagick - addressed in versions 1.3.25-6.el6, 1.3.25-6.el7, 1.3.25-6.fc24, 1.3.25-6.fc25

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