#VU21062 Out-of-bounds read in ImageMagick - CVE-2019-15141
Published: September 12, 2019 / Updated: September 12, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU21062
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15141
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
ImageMagick
ImageMagick
Software vendor:
ImageMagick.org
ImageMagick.org
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in "WriteTIFFImage" within coders/tiff.c" file. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted TIFF image file, related to TIFFRewriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectorySec, and TIFFWriteDirectoryTagColormap in "tif_dirwrite.c" of LibTIFF, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds read error and crash the application.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.