SB2019050910 - Denial of service in ImageMagick

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12806)

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

The vulnerability exists due to memory exhaustion when processing images within the format8BIM() function. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted image, pass it to the affected application and consume all available memory on the system.

2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12805)

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

The vulnerability exists due to a memory consumption condition in the "ReadTIFFImage()" function. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted file to the targeted system, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/660
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/664