CVE-2014-9853 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9853?

CVE-2014-9853 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Memory leak in coders/rle.c in ImageMagick allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted rle file.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9853?

It affects 11 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick, Novell Leap, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Opensuse Project Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9853?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-9853 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9853 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
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9853, GHSA-7gwg-wx67-j925, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9853.