CVE-2019-15141 Memory corruption in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial-of-service crash in ImageMagick via a crafted TIFF image due to a heap-based buffer over-read.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-15141?
CVE-2019-15141 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Imagemagick Imagemagick, published on 18 Aug 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
WriteTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-43 Q16 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash resulting from a heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted TIFF image file, related to TIFFRewriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectorySec, and TIFFWriteDirectoryTagColormap in tif_dirwrite.c of LibTIFF. NOTE: this occurs because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-11597.
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-15141?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Imagemagick Imagemagick, Opensuse Leap.
How do I fix CVE-2019-15141?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2019-15141 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-15141 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Imagemagick Imagemagick
Sources
Also known as GHSA-25x5-8pr2-jjhj, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15141.