CVE-2022-2719 Denial of service in ImageMagick

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A crafted file can trigger an assertion failure in ImageMagick, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2022-2719?

CVE-2022-2719 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, published on 9 Aug 2022. 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

In ImageMagick, a crafted file could trigger an assertion failure when a call to WriteImages was made in MagickWand/operation.c, due to a NULL image list. This could potentially cause a denial of service. This was fixed in upstream ImageMagick version 7.1.0-30.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2719?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2719?

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-2022-2719 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2719 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-2fx4-8cc3-3383, JLSEC-2026-895, OESA-2022-1896.

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