Resource exhaustion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-12140
Published: December 27, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9790
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-2017-12140
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 integer signedness error in the ReadDCMImage function in coders\dcm.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted DCM file, trigger excessive memory consumption and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists due to an integer signedness error in the ReadDCMImage function in coders\dcm.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted DCM file, trigger excessive memory consumption and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Affected software
ImageMagick
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2017-12140
Install update from vendor's website.