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Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting imagemagick package, versions >=0.0.0

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.16% (85th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-COCOAPODS-IMAGEMAGICK-470650
  • published 2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 4 Nov 2017
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 4 Nov 2017

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How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ImageMagick.

Overview

ImageMagick is a pod that allows you to convert, edit and compose Images.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The attack is possible due to the lack of proper validation of input WPG image in the ReadWPGImage function in coders/wpg.c, allowing an attacker to trigger ImportIndexQuantumType invalid write or crash the application.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package