CVE-2020-27756

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

In ParseMetaGeometry() of MagickCore/geometry.c, image height and width calculations can lead to divide-by-zero conditions which also lead to undefined behavior. This flaw can be triggered by a crafted input file processed by ImageMagick and could impact application availability. The patch uses multiplication in addition to the function `PerceptibleReciprocal()` in order to prevent such divide-by-zero conditions. This flaw affects ImageMagick versions prior to 7.0.9-0.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`8:6.9.11.24+dfsg-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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