Resource exhaustion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-14175
Published: December 27, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9802
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14175
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ImageMagick.org
Affected software:
ImageMagick
ImageMagick
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in coders/xbm.c in ReadXBMImage() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check. A remote attacker can provide a specially crafted XBM file, which claims large rows and columns fields in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, trigger the loop over the rows, consume huge CPU resources and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists in coders/xbm.c in ReadXBMImage() due to lack of an EOF (End of File) check. A remote attacker can provide a specially crafted XBM file, which claims large rows and columns fields in the header but does not contain sufficient backing data, trigger the loop over the rows, consume huge CPU resources and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-14175
Install update from vendor's website.