CVE-2018-9133

MEDIUM

ImageMagick 7.0.7-26 Q16 - Denial of Service via Excessive Iteration in TIFF Decoder

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

ImageMagick 7.0.7-26 Q16 has excessive iteration in the DecodeLabImage and EncodeLabImage functions (coders/tiff.c), which results in a hang (tens of minutes) with a tiny PoC file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tiff file.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1072
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0328
EPSS Percentile 86.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-834
Status published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 17.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
imagemagick/imagemagick 7.0.7-26 q16
Published Mar 30, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026