CVE-2022-48541 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2022-48541?

CVE-2022-48541 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 22 Aug 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A memory leak in ImageMagick 7.0.10-45 and 6.9.11-22 allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service via the "identify -help" command.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48541?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Imagemagick Imagemagick.

How do I fix CVE-2022-48541?

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-2022-48541 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48541 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLSA-2023-1696351712, CLSA-2023-1696351966, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48541, DLA-3767-1, GHSA-g5fw-9pgg-xvqg, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48541 and 1 more.