CVE-2022-3213 — A heap buffer overflow issue was found in ImageMagick

A heap buffer overflow issue was found in ImageMagick. When an application processes a malformed TIFF file, it could lead to undefined behavior or a crash causing a denial of service.

01What is this vulnerability?

A heap buffer overflow issue was found in ImageMagick. When an application processes a malformed TIFF file, it could lead to undefined behavior or a crash causing a denial of service.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / ImageMagick	Fixed in ImageMagick 7.1.0-47, ImageMagick 6.9.12-62

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: 2022-09-19T17:31:48.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T01:00:10.859Z

09References

• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2126824
• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3213
• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/1aea203eb36409ce6903b9e41fe7c…
• github.com — https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/commit/30ccf9a0da1f47161b5935a95be854…