Use After Free
CVE-2023-34475
Summary
A heap Use After Free issue was discovered in ImageMagick's "ReplaceXmpValue()" function in "MagickCore/profile.c" versions 7.x prior to 7.1.1-10. An attacker could trick the user to open a specially crafted file to convert, triggering a heap-use-after-free write error, allowing an application to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service.
- LOW
- LOCAL
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- NONE
- HIGH
CWE-416 - Use After Free
Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.
Advisory Timeline
- Published