Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-IMAGEMAGICK-525486
  • published21 Oct 2018
  • disclosed21 Oct 2018

Introduced: 21 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 imagemagick to version 8:6.9.10.14+dfsg-1 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.

There is a memory leak in the function WriteMSLImage of coders/msl.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-13 Q16, and the function ProcessMSLScript of coders/msl.c in GraphicsMagick before 1.3.31.