CVE-2023-34474 Memory corruption in ImageMagick
A local attacker can cause a denial of service by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file in ImageMagick.
- 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-2023-34474?
CVE-2023-34474 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, published on 16 Jun 2023. 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 heap-based buffer overflow issue was discovered in ImageMagick's ReadTIM2ImageData() function in coders/tim2.c. A local attacker could trick the user in opening specially crafted file, triggering an out-of-bounds read error, allowing an application to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-34474?
It affects 3 products.
Linux distribution packages (6)
ImageMagick SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP4 | All versions | 7.1.0.9-150400.6.24.1 |
ImageMagick SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP5 | All versions | 7.1.0.9-150400.6.24.1 |
ImageMagick SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP4 | All versions | 7.1.0.9-150400.6.24.1 |
ImageMagick SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP5 | All versions | 7.1.0.9-150400.6.24.1 |
ImageMagick openSUSE:Leap 15.4 | All versions | 7.1.0.9-150400.6.24.1 |
ImageMagick openSUSE:Leap 15.5 | All versions | 7.1.0.9-150400.6.24.1 |
Products include Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Imagemagick Imagemagick.
How do I fix CVE-2023-34474?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2023-34474 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-34474 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
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- CVE-2022-45152 Moodle blind Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in LTI provider library
- CVE-2022-24882 Server side NTLM does not properly check parameters in FreeRDP
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-prvr-4vr9-qmvh, JLSEC-2026-909, SUSE-SU-2023:2878-1.