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
0.22% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-IMAGEMAGICK-1548288
  • published22 Aug 2017
  • disclosed22 Aug 2017

Introduced: 22 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13062  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 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:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

In ImageMagick 7.0.6-6, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function formatIPTC in coders/meta.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (WriteMETAImage memory consumption) via a crafted file.