Heap-based buffer overflow in ImageMagick - CVE-2022-1115

 

Heap-based buffer overflow in ImageMagick - CVE-2022-1115

Published: October 10, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU68076
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-2022-1115
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the PushShortPixel() function in quantum-private.h when processing TIFF images. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted TIFF image to the application, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

ImageMagick
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
openEuler
imagemagick (Debian package)
ImageMagick
ImageMagick-c++-devel
ImageMagick-debuginfo
ImageMagick-perl
ImageMagick-c++
ImageMagick-debugsource
ImageMagick-devel
ImageMagick-help

How to mitigate CVE-2022-1115

Install updates from vendor's website.

ImageMagick - addressed in versions 6.9.12-44, 7.1.0-29
imagemagick (Debian package) - addressed in versions 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u1, 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+deb11u3
ImageMagick - update to 6.9.12.43-2
ImageMagick-c++-devel - update to 6.9.12.43-2
ImageMagick-debuginfo - update to 6.9.12.43-2
ImageMagick-perl - update to 6.9.12.43-2
ImageMagick-c++ - update to 6.9.12.43-2
ImageMagick-debugsource - update to 6.9.12.43-2
ImageMagick-devel - update to 6.9.12.43-2
ImageMagick-help - update to 6.9.12.43-2

External References

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