Input validation error in ImageMagick - CVE-2018-16641
Published: September 7, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36721
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16641
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
ImageMagick 7.0.8-6 has a memory leak vulnerability in the TIFFWritePhotoshopLayers function in coders/tiff.c.
Affected software
ImageMagick
Opensuse
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2018-16641
Install update from vendor's website.