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CVE-2019-14981

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-369

Description

In ImageMagick 7.x before 7.0.8-41 and 6.x before 6.9.10-41, there is a divide-by-zero vulnerability in the MeanShiftImage function. It allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by sending a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• ImageMagick: from 6.0 before 6.9.10-41; from 7.0.0-0 before 7.0.8-41 — fixed in 6.9.10-41, 7.0.8-41
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ImageMagick 6.9.10-41, 7.0.8-41. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00042.html
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a77d8d97f5a7bced0468f0b08798c83fb67427bc
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1552
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/b522d2d857d2f75b659936b59b0da9df1682c256
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00028.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4192-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00042.html
• https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/a77d8d97f5a7bced0468f0b08798c83fb67427bc

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