Memory leak - CVE-2018-14436

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Memory leak - CVE-2018-14436

Published: July 20, 2018 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33480
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14436
CWE-ID: CWE-401
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 memory leak within ReadMIFFImage in coders/miff.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.


Affected software

Amazon Linux AMI
Opensuse
imagemagick6 (Alpine package)
php70-pecl-imagick
php71-pecl-imagick
php72-pecl-imagick
php54-pecl-imagick
php55-pecl-imagick
php56-pecl-imagick
ImageMagick

How to mitigate CVE-2018-14436

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

imagemagick6 (Alpine package) - update to 6.9.10.37-r0
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 - update to 6.9.10.68-3.22

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