CVE-2017-14137 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause excessive memory allocation and denial of service by providing crafted WebP images to ImageMagick.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-14137?
CVE-2017-14137 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 4 Sep 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
ReadWEBPImage in coders/webp.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has an issue where memory allocation is excessive because it depends only on a length field in a header.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14137?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Imagemagick Imagemagick.
How do I fix CVE-2017-14137?
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-2017-14137 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14137 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Imagemagick Imagemagick
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14137, GHSA-3v3h-h6m5-g9w5.