Denial of service in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-11640
Published: December 27, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9788
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11640
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to an address access exception in the WritePTIFImage() function in coders/tiff.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim into converting a specially crafted file and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists due to an address access exception in the WritePTIFImage() function in coders/tiff.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim into converting a specially crafted file and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Affected software
ImageMagick
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2017-11640
Install update from vendor's website.