High severity · published May 19, 2017
CVE-2017-9098
ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory…
7.5
CVSS
3.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ImageMagick before 7.0.5-2 and GraphicsMagick before 1.3.24 use uninitialized memory in the RLE decoder, allowing an attacker to leak sensitive information from process memory space, as demonstrated by remote attacks against ImageMagick code in a long-running server process that converts image data on behalf of multiple users. This is caused by a missing initialization step in the ReadRLEImage function in coders/rle.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.6% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
GR
Graphicsmagick · Graphicsmagick
before 1.3.24 · source: NVD
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
before 6.9.8-1; 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.5-2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9098
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9098
Patch
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code/diff/0a5b75e019b6/coders/rle.c
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3863
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98593
Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/1c358ffe0049f768dd49a8a889c1cbf99ac9849b
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00002.html
Exploit
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2017/05/bleed-continues-18-byte-file-14k-bounty.html
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