CVE-2019-12979 — ImageMagick 7

ImageMagick 7.0.8-34 has a "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability in the SyncImageSettings function in MagickCore/image.c. This is related to AcquireImage in magick/image.c.

01What is this vulnerability?

ImageMagick 7.0.8-34 has a "use of uninitialized value" vulnerability in the SyncImageSettings function in MagickCore/image.c. This is related to AcquireImage in magick/image.c.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-06-26T17:09:24.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:41:09.181Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1522
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108913
• lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00069.html
• usn.ubuntu.com — https://usn.ubuntu.com/4192-1/
• www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4712
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00030.html