CVE-2019-7398 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-7398?

CVE-2019-7398 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 WriteDIBImage in coders/dib.c.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-7398?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2019-7398?

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-2019-7398 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-7398 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-2019-7398, GHSA-69p9-57rx-5p5p, JLSEC-2026-839, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7398.