SB2017052211 - Denial of service in ImageMagic
Published: May 22, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017052211
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9098)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.The vulnerability exists due to memory leak in in the RLE decoder in ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 . A remote attacker can create create a specially crafted image file and gain access to certain parts of memory and trigger application crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.