Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU31996

#VU31996 Memory leak in ImageMagick - CVE-2019-16711

Published: September 23, 2019 / Updated: July 28, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU31996

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-2019-16711

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
ImageMagick

Software vendor:
ImageMagick.org

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak within Huffman2DEncodeImage in coders/ps2.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.