CVE-2018-10804 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

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.

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10804, GHSA-3fc8-vvff-c2p4, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10804.

Is CVE-2018-10804 in your software?

Upload an SBOM and sbomify checks it against every vulnerability here, every day.

Check your SBOMs for free