CVE-2018-9133

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-834

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
ImageMagick: 7.0.7-26-q16

References

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1072
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1072
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3681-1/

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