Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU6817

Resource exhaustion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-7941

Published: May 26, 2017 / Updated: May 30, 2017

Vulnerability identifier: #VU6817

CSH Severity: Low

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-2017-7941

CWE-ID: CWE-400

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 an error when processing a specially crafted file in The ReadSGIImage function in sgi.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-4. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

ImageMagick
imagemagick (Debian package)
Ubuntu

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7941

Install update from vendor's website.

External References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/428

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