CVE-2017-7941 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Imagemagick

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeCWE-460 — Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception9 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.1%
top 22.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
ImagemagickDebian ImagemagickDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedApr 18
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The ReadSGIImage function in sgi.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-4 allows remote attackers to consume an amount of available memory via a crafted 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 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-6 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-6+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-3mc7-mrgm-m6rp: The ReadSGIImage function in sgi↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-7941: The ReadSGIImage function in sgi↗2017-04-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2017-05-30
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: Memory leak in ReadSGIImage↗2017-04-17
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Debian
CVE-2017-7941: imagemagick - The ReadSGIImage function in sgi.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-4 allows remote attacker...↗2017
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7941 CVE-2017-7942 CVE-2017-7943 CVE-2017-8352 ImageMagick: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-06-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7941 ImageMagick: Memory leak in ReadSGIImage↗2017-04-26
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7941 CVE-2017-7942 CVE-2017-7943 ImageMagick: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-04-26
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