Division by zero in ImageMagick - CVE-2021-40211

 

Division by zero in ImageMagick - CVE-2021-40211

Published: October 17, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82117
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-2021-40211
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 within the ReadEnhMetaFile() function in coders/emf.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and crash it.


Affected software

ImageMagick
Oracle Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
CentOS
Anolis OS
ImageMagick
ImageMagick-c++
ImageMagick-c++-devel
ImageMagick-devel
ImageMagick-doc
ImageMagick-perl
ImageMagick (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2021-40211

Install update from vendor's website.

ImageMagick - update to 7.1.0-5
ImageMagick - update to 6.9.10.68-7
ImageMagick-c++ - update to 6.9.10.68-7
ImageMagick-c++-devel - update to 6.9.10.68-7
ImageMagick-devel - update to 6.9.10.68-7
ImageMagick-doc - update to 6.9.10.68-7
ImageMagick-perl - update to 6.9.10.68-7
ImageMagick (Red Hat package) - update to 6.9.10.68-7.el7_9

External References

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