CVE-2019-10131 Memory corruption in ImageMagick

What is CVE-2019-10131?

CVE-2019-10131 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Apr 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An off-by-one read vulnerability was discovered in ImageMagick before version 7.0.7-28 in the formatIPTCfromBuffer function in coders/meta.c. A local attacker may use this flaw to read beyond the end of the buffer or to crash the program.

Weakness: CWE-193

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10131?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10131?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2019-10131 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10131 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-2019-10131, GHSA-fhcf-vpm9-jphv, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-10131.