SB2019042309 - Denial of service in ImageMagick
Published: April 23, 2019 Updated: July 8, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019042309
Severity
Medium
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) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11470)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a lack of checks for insufficient image data in a file in the "ReadCINImage()" function, as defined in the "coders/cin.c" file. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted Cineon image with an incorrect claimed image size, trick a user into opening it, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.