Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting ImageMagick-perl package, versions <0:6.9.10.68-3.amzn2.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.91% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-IMAGEMAGICKPERL-1684667
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed9 Sept 2018

Introduced: 9 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16750  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 ImageMagick-perl to version 0:6.9.10.68-3.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2020-1497.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ImageMagick-perl package and not the ImageMagick-perl package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-29 and earlier, a memory leak in the formatIPTCfromBuffer function in coders/meta.c was found.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1