SB2018020105 - Denial of service in ImageMagick
Published: February 1, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018020105
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-2018-6405)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the coders/dcm.c source code in the ReadDCMImage function due to memory leak. A remote attacker can trick the victim into accessing a file that submits malicious input, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.