#VU18573 Off-by-one in ImageMagick - CVE-2019-10131

Vulnerability identifier: #VU18573

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 4.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10131

CWE-ID: CWE-193

Exploitation vector: Network

Exploit availability: No

Vulnerable software:
ImageMagick
Client/Desktop applications / Multimedia software

Vendor: ImageMagick.org

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to an off-by-one read error in the formatIPTCfromBuffer function in coders/meta.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted image file the to affected application, trigger an off-by-one read error and perform denial of service attack.

Mitigation
Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

ImageMagick: 7.0.0-0, 7.0.1-0 - 7.0.1-10, 7.0.2-0 - 7.0.2-10, 7.0.3-0 - 7.0.3-10, 7.0.4-0 - 7.0.4-10, 7.0.5-0 - 7.0.5-10, 7.0.6-0 - 7.0.6-10, 7.0.7-0 Q16 - 7.0.7-27

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External links
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00051.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10131
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cb1214c124e1bd61f7dd551b94a794864861592e

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Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

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