CVE-2017-9407 — 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
0.2%
top 55.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ImagemagickDebian Imagemagick
Timeline
PublishedJun 2
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In ImageMagick 7.0.5-5, the ReadPALMImage function in palm.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-11 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-11+3

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-c66m-r547-8qqj: In ImageMagick 7↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-9407: In ImageMagick 7↗2017-06-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ImageMagick vulnerabilities↗2017-07-24
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Red Hat
ImageMagick: Memory leak in the ReadPALMImage function↗2017-04-28
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Debian
CVE-2017-9407: imagemagick - In ImageMagick 7.0.5-5, the ReadPALMImage function in palm.c allows attackers to...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9407 ImageMagick: Memory leak in the ReadPALMImage function↗2017-06-05
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