CVE-2021-3596
imagemagick - security update
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.17%
Description
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in ImageMagick in versions prior to 7.0.10-31 in ReadSVGImage() in coders/svg.c. This issue is due to not checking the return value from libxml2's xmlCreatePushParserCtxt() and uses the value directly, which leads to a crash and segmentation fault.
How to fix CVE-2021-3596
To remediate CVE-2021-3596, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 8:6.9.11.57+dfsg-1 or later
- —upgrade to 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u14 or later
Is CVE-2021-3596 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 8:6.9.11.57+dfsg-1
- from 0, < 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+deb9u14
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |