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CVE-2023-39978

Publication date 8 August 2023

Last updated 7 August 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.3 · Low

Score breakdown

ImageMagick before 6.9.12-91 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) in Magick::Draw.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
imagemagick 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needed
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

according the rmagick github issue, the memory leak was introduced in 6.9.12-78, probably via commit e8c0090c6 (recursion detection framework, 2023-03-06) attempts to reproduce this via rmagick on focal and jammy are unsuccessful.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 3.3 · Low
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L