CVE-2019-7175 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-7175?

CVE-2019-7175 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 7 Mar 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In ImageMagick before 7.0.8-25, some memory leaks exist in DecodeImage in coders/pcd.c.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-7175?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2019-7175?

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-2019-7175 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-7175 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
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7175, GHSA-8cq9-g9fr-fjqr, JLSEC-2026-835, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7175.