Amazon Linux AMI update for ImageMagick



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2023-1289
CWE-ID CWE-399
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Amazon Linux AMI
Operating systems & Components / Operating system

ImageMagick
Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component

Vendor Amazon Web Services

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU74300

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1289

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when parsing SVG files. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted SVG file that contains many render actions and consume all available disk space on the system.

Mitigation

Update the affected packages:

aarch64:
    ImageMagick-perl-debuginfo-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-c++-debuginfo-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-devel-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-perl-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-c++-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-debugsource-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-doc-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-libs-debuginfo-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64
    ImageMagick-libs-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.aarch64

src:
    ImageMagick-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.src

x86_64:
    ImageMagick-c++-debuginfo-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-debugsource-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-c++-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-doc-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-perl-debuginfo-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-perl-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-devel-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-libs-debuginfo-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64
    ImageMagick-libs-6.9.12.82-1.amzn2023.0.1.x86_64

Vulnerable software versions

Amazon Linux AMI: All versions

ImageMagick: before 6.9.12.82-1

CPE2.3 External links

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-150.html


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.



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