SB2017053006 - Denial of service in ImageMagic

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Assertion failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9141)

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

The vulnerability exist due to missing checks in the ReadDDSImage function in coders/dds.c within the ResetImageProfileIterator function in MagickCore/profile.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-7 Q16. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file and trigger assertion failure.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

2) Assertion failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9142)

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

The vulnerability exist due to missing checks in the ReadOneJNGImage function in coders/png.c within the WriteBlob function in MagickCore/blob. in ImageMagick 7.0.5-7 Q16. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file and trigger assertion failure.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/489
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/490