Reachable Assertion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-9501

 

Reachable Assertion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-9501

Published: June 7, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU38886
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-2017-9501
CWE-ID: CWE-617
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.

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-7 Q16, an assertion failure was found in the function LockSemaphoreInfo, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.


Affected software

ImageMagick
SUSE Linux
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9501

Install update from vendor's website.


External References

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