CVE-2017-5507 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Imagemagick

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime8 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
11.4%
top 6.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
ImagemagickDebian ImagemagickDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedMar 24
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Memory leak in coders/mpc.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.7-4 and 7.x before 7.0.4-4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a pixel cache.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/imagemagick< imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-1+3
▶NVDimagemagick/imagemagick6.9.7-3+37

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

Patches

Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: bugs.debian.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2g8w-m86w-fcpc: Memory leak in coders/mpc↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-5507: Memory leak in coders/mpc↗2017-03-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2017-03-08
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: Memory leak in mpc file handling↗2017-01-11
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Debian
CVE-2017-5507: imagemagick - Memory leak in coders/mpc.c in ImageMagick before 6.9.7-4 and 7.x before 7.0.4-4...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5507 ImageMagick: Memory leak in mpc file handling↗2017-01-18
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Bugzilla
ImageMagick: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-01-05
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