Denial of service in ImageMagick

1) Buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU77938

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [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/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3428

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing TIFF files in coders/tiff.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted TIFF file to the application, trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

ImageMagick: 6.9.0-0 - 7.6.0-0

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.0-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.12-90:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.2-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.3-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.4-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.5-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.6-8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.7-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.8-10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:imagemagick_org:imagemagick:6.9.9-51:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a531d28e31309676ce8168c3b6dbbb5374b78790
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/0d00400727170b0540a355a1bc52787bc7bcdea5

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.