SB2017042804 - Denial of service in ImageMagick

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9439)

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

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak in ReadPDBImage() function in coders/pdb.c. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it and trigger denial of service attack.

2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9440)

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

The vulnerability exists due to memory leak in ReadPSDChannel() function in coders/psd.c. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it and trigger denial of service attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/460
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/462