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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-1289: Security patch for ImageMagick (ALAS-2023-2014)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-1289: Security patch for ImageMagick (ALAS-2023-2014)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/23/2023
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/21/2023
Modified
04/21/2023

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in ImageMagick where a specially created SVG file loads itself and causes a segmentation fault. This flaw allows a remote attacker to pass a specially crafted SVG file that leads to a segmentation fault, generating many trash files in "/tmp," resulting in a denial of service. When ImageMagick crashes, it generates a lot of trash files. These trash files can be large if the SVG file contains many render actions. In a denial of service attack, if a remote attacker uploads an SVG file of size t, ImageMagick generates files of size 103*t. If an attacker uploads a 100M SVG, the server will generate about 10G.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-imagemagick
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-imagemagick-c
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-imagemagick-c-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-imagemagick-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-imagemagick-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-imagemagick-doc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-imagemagick-perl

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