Resource exhaustion in ImageMagick - CVE-2017-14342
Published: December 27, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9804
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14342
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 error in ReadWPGImage in coders/wpg.c. A remote attacker can provide a specially crafted wpg image file, trigger memory exhaustion and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists due to an error in ReadWPGImage in coders/wpg.c. A remote attacker can provide a specially crafted wpg image file, trigger memory exhaustion 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-2017-14342
Install update from vendor's website.