Resource Management Errors Affecting ImageMagick/ImageMagick package, versions [,6.9.10-11)[7.0.0, 7.0.8-11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
2.67% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IMAGEMAGICKIMAGEMAGICK-3007610
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16645  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ImageMagick/ImageMagick to version 6.9.10-11, 7.0.8-11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. There is an excessive memory allocation issue in the functions ReadBMPImage of coders/bmp.c and ReadDIBImage of coders/dib.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file.

CVSS Scores

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