High severity · published Oct 14, 2019
CVE-2019-17541
ImageMagick before 7.0.8-55 has a use-after-free in DestroyStringInfo in MagickCore/string.c because the error manager is mishandled in coders/jpeg.c
8.8
CVSS
2.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ImageMagick before 7.0.8-55 has a use-after-free in DestroyStringInfo in MagickCore/string.c because the error manager is mishandled in coders/jpeg.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)2.4% · higher than 84% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IM
Imagemagick · Imagemagick
before 6.9.10-55; 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.8-55 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17541
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17541
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15827
Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/39f226a9c137f547e12afde972eeba7551124493
Patch
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/compare/7.0.8-54...7.0.8-55
Exploit
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1641
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