High severity · published Oct 14, 2019
CVE-2019-17540
ImageMagick before 7.0.8-54 has a heap-based buffer overflow in ReadPSInfo in coders/ps.c
8.8
CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ImageMagick before 7.0.8-54 has a heap-based buffer overflow in ReadPSInfo in coders/ps.c.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 82% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
6.9.10-54 before 6.9.10-55; 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.8-54 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17540
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17540
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15826
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=942578
Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/compare/7.0.8-53...7.0.8-54
github.com
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/compare/master%40%7B2019-07-15%7D...master%40%7B2019-07-17%7D
Patch
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17540
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