Input validation error in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-11166
Published: July 10, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The ReadXWDImage function in codersxwd.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory leak vulnerability that can cause memory exhaustion via a crafted length (number of color-map entries) field in the header of an XWD file.
Affected software
Amazon Linux AMI
php70-pecl-imagick
php71-pecl-imagick
php72-pecl-imagick
php54-pecl-imagick
php55-pecl-imagick
php56-pecl-imagick
ImageMagick
How to mitigate CVE-2017-11166
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
External References
Related Security Bulletins
- Multiple vulnerabilities in ImageMagick
- Amazon Linux AMI update for php72-pecl-imagick
- Amazon Linux AMI update for php71-pecl-imagick
- Amazon Linux AMI update for php70-pecl-imagick
- Amazon Linux AMI update for php55-pecl-imagick
- Amazon Linux AMI update for php56-pecl-imagick
- Amazon Linux AMI update for php54-pecl-imagick
- Amazon Linux AMI update for ImageMagick