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CVE-2019-10131

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-193

Description

An off-by-one read vulnerability was discovered in ImageMagick before version 7.0.7-28 in the formatIPTCfromBuffer function in coders/meta.c. A local attacker may use this flaw to read beyond the end of the buffer or to crash the program.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• ImageMagick: before 6.9.9-40; from 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.7-28 — fixed in 6.9.9-40, 7.0.7-28
• openSUSE Leap: 42.3
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.9-40, 7.0.7-28. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00051.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00001.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108117
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10131
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cb1214c124e1bd61f7dd551b94a794864861592e
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4034-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00051.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00001.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108117
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10131
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/cb1214c124e1bd61f7dd551b94a794864861592e

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