ImageMagick before 7.0.8-55 has a use-after-free in DestroyStringInfo in MagickCore/string.c because the error manager is mishandled in coders/jpeg.c.
CVE-2019-17541
This high-severity CVE scores 8.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 2.4%, top 18% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 8.8(medium)
- EPSS
- 82.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
October 14, 2019
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (8)
- cve@mitrehttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15827
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/39f226a9c137f547e12afde972eeba7551124493
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/compare/7.0.8-54...7.0.8-55
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1641
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15827
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/39f226a9c137f547e12afde972eeba7551124493
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/compare/7.0.8-54...7.0.8-55
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1641
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2019-17541(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | inkscape-0:0.92.2-3.el7 | 2020-03-31 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
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