Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting imagemagick package, versions <8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-13


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-IMAGEMAGICK-1548209
  • published23 Jul 2017
  • disclosed23 Jul 2017

Introduced: 23 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11531  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 imagemagick to version 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-13 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:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

When ImageMagick 7.0.6-1 processes a crafted file in convert, it can lead to a Memory Leak in the WriteHISTOGRAMImage() function in coders/histogram.c.