CVE-2018-10804 Denial of service in n/a
A memory leak in ImageMagick's TIFF writer allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system memory.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-10804?
CVE-2018-10804 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 May 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
ImageMagick version 7.0.7-28 contains a memory leak in WriteTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c.
Weakness: CWE-772
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10804?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick.
How do I fix CVE-2018-10804?
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-2018-10804 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10804 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10804, GHSA-3fc8-vvff-c2p4, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10804.