CVE-2017-12428 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial of service via a memory leak in ImageMagick's WMF image processing.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-12428?
CVE-2017-12428 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 4 Aug 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In ImageMagick 7.0.6-1, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadWMFImage in coders/wmf.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service in CloneDrawInfo in draw.c.
Weakness: CWE-772
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-12428?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Imagemagick Imagemagick.
How do I fix CVE-2017-12428?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2017-12428 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12428 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Imagemagick Imagemagick
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12428, GHSA-w28m-vf9v-7cm7, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12428.