# CVE-2019-15141: WriteTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-43 Q16 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash resulting from

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-08-18 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

WriteTIFFImage in coders/tiff.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-43 Q16 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash resulting from a heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted TIFF image file, related to TIFFRewriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectory, TIFFWriteDirectorySec, and TIFFWriteDirectoryTagColormap in tif_dirwrite.c of LibTIFF. NOTE: this occurs because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-11597.

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## References

- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1560
- https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick6/commit/3c53413eb544cc567309b4c86485eae43e956112
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00042.html

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