Use-after-free in GraphicsMagick - CVE-2017-13737
Published: August 29, 2017 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33201
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-13737
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GraphicsMagick Group
Affected software:
GraphicsMagick
GraphicsMagick
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
There is an invalid free in the MagickFree function in magick/memory.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-13737
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://hg.graphicsmagick.org/hg/GraphicsMagick/rev/3db9449e3d6a/
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/29/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100518
- https://bugs.debian.org/878511
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484196
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PF62B5PJA2JDUOCKJGUQO3SPL74BEYSV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WHIKB4TP6KBJWT2UIPWL5MWMG5QXKGEJ/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4222-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4321