CVE-2021-20243 Denial of service in ImageMagick

What is CVE-2021-20243?

CVE-2021-20243 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Mar 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A flaw was found in ImageMagick in MagickCore/resize.c. An attacker who submits a crafted file that is processed by ImageMagick could trigger undefined behavior in the form of math division by zero. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Weakness: CWE-369

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-20243?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2021-20243?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2021-20243 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-20243 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2021-20243, GHSA-4c27-wwv3-v6h2, JLSEC-2026-880, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-20243.