CVE-2017-12672 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Imagemagick

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime6 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 55.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ImagemagickDebian Imagemagick
Timeline
PublishedAug 7
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-3, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadMATImage in coders/mat.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/imagemagick< imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-14 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-14+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2cwm-wr5w-g4f2: In ImageMagick 7↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-12672: In ImageMagick 7↗2017-08-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
ImageMagick: Memory leak in the function ReadMATImage↗2017-07-25
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Debian
CVE-2017-12672: imagemagick - In ImageMagick 7.0.6-3, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function Re...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-12672 ImageMagick: Memory leak in the function ReadMATImage↗2017-08-24
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