CVE-2017-17884 — 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 Buffer8 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 36.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
ImagemagickDebian ImagemagickCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedDec 27
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function WriteOnePNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PNG 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

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f232-5ch9-885f: In ImageMagick 7↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-17884: In ImageMagick 7↗2017-12-27
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2018-06-12
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: memory leak in function WriteOnePNGImage in coders/png.c↗2017-12-19
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Debian
CVE-2017-17884: imagemagick - In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the functi...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17884 ImageMagick: memory leak in function WriteOnePNGImage in coders/png.c↗2017-12-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17884 ImageMagick: memory leak in function WriteOnePNGImage in coders/png.c [fedora-all]↗2017-12-27
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