Researchers Uncover New Bugs in Popular ImageMagick Image Processing Utility
Feb 01, 2023
Vulnerability
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two security flaws in the open source ImageMagick software that could potentially lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) and information disclosure. The two issues, which were identified by Latin American cybersecurity firm Metabase Q in version 7.1.0-49, were addressed in ImageMagick version 7.1.0-52 , released in November 2022. A brief description of the flaws is as follows - CVE-2022-44267 - A DoS vulnerability that arises when parsing a PNG image with a filename that's a single dash ("-") CVE-2022-44268 - An information disclosure vulnerability that could be exploited to read arbitrary files from a server when parsing an image That said, an attacker must be able to upload a malicious image to a website using ImageMagick so as to weaponize the flaws remotely. The specially crafted image, for its part, can be created by inserting a text chunk that specifies some metadata of th...