Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-IMAGEMAGICK-523588
  • published27 Mar 2018
  • disclosed27 Mar 2018

Introduced: 27 Mar 2018

CVE-2017-18254  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (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.

An issue was discovered in ImageMagick 7.0.7. A memory leak vulnerability was found in the function WriteGIFImage in coders/gif.c, which allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.