CVE-2019-7397 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-7397?

CVE-2019-7397 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 and GraphicsMagick through 1.3.31, several memory leaks exist in WritePDFImage in coders/pdf.c.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-7397?

It affects 5 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2019-7397?

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-2019-7397 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-7397 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-2019-7397, GHSA-7pxc-hv76-qwg9, JLSEC-2026-838, MGASA-2019-0115, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7397, openSUSE-SU-2019:0215-1 and 1 more.