CVE-2018-9133 - Excessive Iteration

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

ImageMagick 7.0.7-26 Q16 has excessive iteration in the DecodeLabImage and EncodeLabImage functions (coders/tiff.c), which results in a hang (tens of minutes) with a tiny PoC file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tiff file.

ImageMagick 7.0.7-26 Q16 has excessive iteration in the DecodeLabImage and EncodeLabImage functions (coders/tiff.c), which results in a hang (tens of minutes) with a tiny PoC file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tiff file.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2018-03-30 08:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

ImageMagick 7.0.7-26 Q16

7.0.7-26

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

16.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 17.10

17.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS Edition

18.04

References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1072

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

USN-3681-1

Third Party Advisory

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