CVE-2017-17883 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Imagemagick

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeCWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 51.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ImagemagickDebian Imagemagick
Timeline
PublishedDec 27
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function ReadPGXImage in coders/pgx.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PGX image file.

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 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-86vh-5648-5663: In ImageMagick 7↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-17883: In ImageMagick 7↗2017-12-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
ImageMagick: memory leak in the function ReadPGXImage in coders/pgx.c↗2017-11-24
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Debian
CVE-2017-17883: imagemagick - In ImageMagick 7.0.7-12 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the functi...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17883 ImageMagick: memory leak in the function ReadPGXImage in coders/pgx.c↗2017-12-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17883 ImageMagick: memory leak in the function ReadPGXImage in coders/pgx.c [fedora-all]↗2017-12-27
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