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CVE-2017-18028

Published: 12 January 2018

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-1 Q16, a memory exhaustion vulnerability was found in the function ReadTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
not fixing memory leak in trusty and xenial

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
imagemagick
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful
Released (8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu2.2)
bionic
Released (8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.2)
trusty
Released (8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.11)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (8:6.8.9.9-7ubuntu5.11)
zesty Ignored
(end of life)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/740985d9bd3f1c50d622c3496bb2e75d44b65a91

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H