CVE-2014-1958 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1958?

CVE-2014-1958 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 Feb 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the DecodePSDPixels function in coders/psd.c in ImageMagick before 6.8.8-5 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PSD image, involving the L%06ld string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-2030.

Weakness: CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1958?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1958?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2014-1958 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1958 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1958, GHSA-6f4f-vqcj-cwvr.