CVE-2019-7396 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published Updated

A memory leak in ImageMagick's SIXEL image reader allows attackers to cause a denial of service by exhausting system memory.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2019-7396?

CVE-2019-7396 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 5 Feb 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, a memory leak exists in ReadSIXELImage in coders/sixel.c.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-7396?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2019-7396?

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-2019-7396 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-7396 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7396, GHSA-jg7c-px6j-w73v, JLSEC-2026-837, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7396.

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