Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2023-39978

Vulnerability identifier: #VU79869

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39978

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in Magick::Draw. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.

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

Install updates from vendor's website.

ImageMagick - update to 6.9.12-91
ImageMagick - update to 6.9.12.82-1
ImageMagick-perl - update to 6.9.12.86-4
ImageMagick-c++ - update to 6.9.12.86-4
ImageMagick-debugsource - update to 6.9.12.86-4
ImageMagick-debuginfo - update to 6.9.12.86-4
ImageMagick-help - update to 6.9.12.86-4
ImageMagick-c++-devel - update to 6.9.12.86-4
ImageMagick-devel - update to 6.9.12.86-4
ImageMagick - update to 6.9.12.86-4
ImageMagick - addressed in versions 6.9.12.93-1.el8, 6.9.12.93-1.fc37

• https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/pull/1406/files
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/c90e79b3b22fec309cab55af2ee606f71b027b12
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/compare/6.9.12-90...6.9.12-91

• Memory leak in ImageMagick
• Fedora 37 update for ImageMagick
• Fedora EPEL 8 update for ImageMagick
• openEuler 20.03 LTS SP1 update for ImageMagick
• openEuler 20.03 LTS SP3 update for ImageMagick
• Amazon Linux AMI update for ImageMagick