Out-of-bounds Read in Imagemagick

CVE-2019-15141

WriteTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-43 Q16 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash resulting from a heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted TIFF image file, related to TIFFRewriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectorySec, and TIFFWriteDirectoryTagColormap in tif_dirwrite.c of LibTIFF. NOTE: this occurs because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-11597.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.022 (80.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link, x_refsource_SUSE)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link, x_refsource_SUSE)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-15141?
CVE-2019-15141 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Imagemagick, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-08-18.
How severe is CVE-2019-15141?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.