Use After Free Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-IMAGEMAGICK-522241
  • published18 May 2018
  • disclosed18 May 2018

Introduced: 18 May 2018

CVE-2017-18272  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 imagemagick to version 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream imagemagick package and not the imagemagick package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

In ImageMagick 7.0.7-16 Q16 x86_64 2017-12-25, there is a use-after-free in ReadOneMNGImage in coders/png.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted MNG image file that is mishandled in an MngInfoDiscardObject call.