Division by zero in ImageMagick - CVE-2020-27756
Published: May 10, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU62904
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27756
CWE-ID: CWE-369
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a division by zero error in the ParseMetaGeometry() function in MagickCore/geometry.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted data to the application and crash it.
Affected software
ImageMagick
How to mitigate CVE-2020-27756
Install updates from vendor's website.
ImageMagick - update to 7.0.9-0