Heap-based buffer overflow in ImageMagick - CVE-2023-2157

 

Heap-based buffer overflow in ImageMagick - CVE-2023-2157

Published: August 22, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU79868
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-2023-2157
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. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

ImageMagick
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
openEuler
ImageMagick-devel
ImageMagick-c++
ImageMagick-debugsource
ImageMagick-debuginfo
ImageMagick-help
ImageMagick-perl
ImageMagick
ImageMagick-c++-devel

How to mitigate CVE-2023-2157

Install updates from vendor's website.

ImageMagick - update to 7.1.1-9
ImageMagick-devel - addressed in versions 6.9.12.86-1, 7.1.1.8-1
ImageMagick-c++ - addressed in versions 6.9.12.86-1, 7.1.1.8-1
ImageMagick-debugsource - addressed in versions 6.9.12.86-1, 7.1.1.8-1
ImageMagick-debuginfo - addressed in versions 6.9.12.86-1, 7.1.1.8-1
ImageMagick-help - addressed in versions 6.9.12.86-1, 7.1.1.8-1
ImageMagick-perl - addressed in versions 6.9.12.86-1, 7.1.1.8-1
ImageMagick - addressed in versions 6.9.12.86-1, 7.1.1.8-1
ImageMagick-c++-devel - addressed in versions 6.9.12.86-1, 7.1.1.8-1
ImageMagick - addressed in versions 6.9.12.93-1.el8, 6.9.12.93-1.el9

External References

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