Resource exhaustion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-14137
Published: September 5, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU38360
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14137
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ImageMagick.org
Affected software:
ImageMagick
ImageMagick
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
ReadWEBPImage in coders/webp.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has an issue where memory allocation is excessive because it depends only on a length field in a header.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-14137
Install update from vendor's website.