CVE-2017-8356 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Imagemagick

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeCWE-460 — Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception7 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
ImagemagickDebian ImagemagickDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedApr 30
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-5, the ReadSUNImage function in sun.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak) 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-7 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-7+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wm3m-w289-v6w6: In ImageMagick 7↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-8356: In ImageMagick 7↗2017-04-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2017-05-30
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: Memory leak in the ReadSUNImage function↗2017-04-26
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Debian
CVE-2017-8356: imagemagick - In ImageMagick 7.0.5-5, the ReadSUNImage function in sun.c allows attackers to c...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-8356 ImageMagick: Memory leak in the ReadSUNImage function↗2017-05-09
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