CVE-2019-15141

Public Exploit

Description

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.

Category

6.5
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.09%
Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1560 issue tracking patch exploit third party advisory
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/3c53413eb544cc567309b4c86485eae43e956112 patch
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00040.html mailing list broken link third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00042.html mailing list broken link third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2019-15141?
CVE-2019-15141 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2019-15141?
To fix CVE-2019-15141, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2019-15141 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2019-15141 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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